Pcbnew Pcbnew ii October 31, 2021 Pcbnew iii Contents 1 Introduction to Pcbnew 1 1.1 Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Pcbnew iv 3.5 Displaying cursor coordinates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . footprints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Pcbnew v 5 Layers 36 5.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Pcbnew Pcbnew ii October 31, 2021 Pcbnew iii Contents 1 Introduction to Pcbnew 1 1.1 Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Modifying footprints in a PCB project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Pcbnew iv 3 General operations 15 3.1 Toolbars and commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Pcbnew v 3.13 Pop-up windows and fast editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Pcbnew The KiCad Team Reference manual Copyright This document is Copyright © 2010-2015 by its contributors as listed below. You may distribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either the GNU Introduction to Pcbnew 1.1. Description Pcbnew is a powerful printed circuit board software tool available for the Linux, Microsoft Windows and Apple OS X operating systems. Pcbnew is used in association association with the schematic capture program Eeschema to create printed circuit boards. Pcbnew manages libraries of footprints. Each footprint is a drawing of the physical component including its land pattern

Pcbnew The KiCad Team Reference manual Copyright This document is Copyright © 2010-2015 by its contributors as listed below. You may distribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either the GNU Introduction to Pcbnew 1.1. Description Pcbnew is a powerful printed circuit board software tool available for the Linux, Microsoft Windows and Apple OS X operating systems. Pcbnew is used in association association with the schematic capture program Eeschema to create printed circuit boards. Pcbnew manages libraries of footprints. Each footprint is a drawing of the physical component including its land pattern

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Table of Contents Introduction to Pcbnew Initial configuration The Pcbnew user interface Navigating the editing canvas Hotkeys Display and selection controls Introduction to Pcbnew Initial configuration When Pcbnew is run for the first time, if the global footprint table file fp-lib-table is not found in the KiCad configuration folder then Pcbnew will ask how option. Footprint library management is described in more detail later. 3 The Pcbnew user interface The main Pcbnew user interface is shown above, with some key elements indicated: 1. Top toolbars

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 5 Layout printed circuit boards 23 5.1 Using Pcbnew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . extension KiCad Project manager *.pro Eeschema Schematic and component editor *.sch, *.lib, *.net Pcbnew Circuit board and footprint editor *.kicad_pcb, *.kicad_mod GerbView Gerber and drill file viewer From here you have access to eight stand-alone software tools: Eeschema, Schematic Library Editor, Pcbnew, PCB Footprint Editor, GerbView, Bitmap2Component, PCB Calculator and Pl Editor. Refer to the work-flow

extension KiCad Project manager *.pro Eeschema Schematic and component editor *.sch, *.lib, *.net Pcbnew Circuit board and footprint editor *.kicad_pcb, *.kicad_mod GerbView Gerber and drill file viewer From here you have access to eight stand-alone software tools: Eeschema, Schematic Library Editor, Pcbnew, PCB Footprint Editor, GerbView, Bitmap2Component, PCB Calculator and Pl Editor. Refer to the work-flow Update PCB from Schematic. If you do that, Pcbnew is opened with Update PCB from Schematic dialog. Click Update PCB. Then You can follow the instructions in the Pcbnew section of this tutorial. 56. Switch

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 4 Layout printed circuit boards 21 4.1 Using Pcbnew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Schematic editor (both schematic and component) *.sch, *.lib, *.net CvPcb Footprint selector *.net Pcbnew Circuit board board editor *.kicad_pcb GerbView Gerber viewer All the usual gerbers Bitmap2Component From here you have access to eight stand-alone software tools: Eeschema, Schematic Library Editor, Pcbnew, PCB Footprint Editor, GerbView, Bitmap2Component, PCB Calculator and Pl Editor. Refer to the work-flow

Schematic editor (both schematic and component) *.sch, *.lib, *.net CvPcb Footprint selector *.net Pcbnew Circuit board board editor *.kicad_pcb GerbView Gerber viewer All the usual gerbers Bitmap2ComponentConvert From here you have access to eight stand-alone software tools: Eeschema, Schematic Library Editor, Pcbnew, PCB Footprint Editor, GerbView, Bitmap2Component, PCB Calculator and Pl Editor. Refer to the work-flow generated to lay out the PCB. This is done with the Pcbnew tool. 4.1. Using Pcbnew 1. From the KiCad project manager, click on the Pcbnew icon . The Pcbnew window will open. If you get an error message

following software tools: KiCad: Project manager Eeschema: Schematic editor and component editor Pcbnew: Circuit board layout editor and footprint editor GerbView: Gerber viewer 3 utility tools are also footprints. It can be created by Pcbnew and imported by Eeschema. Its purpose is to import changes from Pcbnew to Eeschema, for users who change footprints inside Pcbnew (for instance using Exchange Footprints Chapter 2. Installation and configuration 2.1. Display options Hardware accelerated renderer in Pcbnew and Gerbview requires video card with support of OpenGL v2.1 or higher. 2.2. Initialization of the