Название: KiCad 6 Like a Pro – Fundamentals and Projects: Getting started with the world's best open-source PCB toolАвтор: Peter Dalmaris
Издательство: Elektor
Год: 2022
Страниц: 550
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 61.5 MB
KiCad 6 is the world’s best open-source and free-to-use Printed Circuit Board tool. Its latest iteration, version 6, is packed with features usually found only in expensive commercial CAD tools. KiCad 6 is a modern, cross-platform application suite built around schematic and design editors, with auxiliary applications: a custom symbol and footprint creator, calculators, a Gerber file viewer, and an image converter for customizing graphics in silkscreen or copper. KiCad 6 is a stable and mature PCB tool, a perfect fit for electronic engineers and hobbyists. With KiCad 6, you can create PCBs of any complexity and size without the constraints associated with the commercial packages.
Here are the most significant improvements and features in KiCad 6, both over and under the hood:
• Modern user interface, completely redesigned from earlier versions
• Improved and customizable electrical and design rule checkers
• Theme editor allowing you to customize KiCad on your screen
• Ability to import projects from Eagle, CADSTART, and more
• Enhanced bus handling
• Full control over the presentation of information by the layout editor
• Filters define selectable elements
• Enhanced interactive router helps you draw single tracks and differential pairs with precision
• New or enhanced tools to draw tracks, measure distances, tune track lengths, etc.
• Enhanced tool for creating filled zones
• Easy data exchange with other CAD applications
• Realistic ray-tracing capable 3D viewer
• Huge community of contributors that make KiCad better every day
• Rich repositories of symbol, footprint, and 3D shape libraries
In this book, you will learn about the technical elements of designing a PCB in KiCad, but I am sure that as you start creating your PCBs, your artistic side will emerge. Over time, your PCB will start to look uniquely yours. PCB design is concerned with the process of creating the plans for a printed circuit board. It is different from PCB manufacturing. In PCB design, you learn about the tools, process, and guidelines useful for creating such plans. In PCB manufacturing, on the other hand, you are concerned about the process of converting the plans of a PCB into the actual PCB. As a designer of printed circuit boards, it is useful to know a few things about PCB manufacturing, though you surely do not need to be an expert. You need to know about the capabilities of a PCB manufacturing facility so that you can ensure that your design does not exceed those capabilities and that your PCBs are manufacturable. As a designer, you need to have an understanding of the design process, and the design tools. To want to design PCB, I assume that you already have a working knowledge of electronics. Designing a PCB, like much else in engineering, is a procedural and iterative process that contains a significant element of personal choice. As you build up your experience and skills, you will develop your unique designing style and process.
This book will teach you to use KiCad through a practical approach. It will help you become productive quickly and start designing your own boards. Example projects (e.g., a simple breadboard power supply and a PCBA 4×8×8 LED matrix array) illustrate the basic features of KiCad, even if you have no prior knowledge of PCB design. The author describes the entire workflow from schematic entry to the intricacies of finalizing the files for PCB production and o! ers sound guidance on the process. Further full-fledged projects, of incremental difficulty, will be presented in a second book, together with a variety of advanced recipes.
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