What is KiCad about- Starting with KiCad …

What is KiCad about? Starting with KiCad , available at Free, has an average rating of 4.25, with 15 lectures, based on 201 reviews, and has 3152 subscribers.

You will learn about By the end of this course students will design a simple board and will get an idea about how KiCad works. This course is ideal for individuals who are This course is for everyone who would like to start designing boards or start working with KiCad. It is particularly useful for This course is for everyone who would like to start designing boards or start working with KiCad.

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Summary

Title: What is KiCad about? Starting with KiCad

Price: Free

Average Rating: 4.25

Number of Lectures: 15

Number of Published Lectures: 15

Number of Curriculum Items: 15

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 15

Original Price: Free

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

By the end of this course students will design a simple board and will get an idea about how KiCad works.

Who Should Attend

This course is for everyone who would like to start designing boards or start working with KiCad.

Target Audiences

This course is for everyone who would like to start designing boards or start working with KiCad.

KiCad is a very popular free CAD software to draw schematic and do PCB Layout. This course will help you to learn more about KiCad.

You will learn how to

Draw schematic

Create schematic symbol and footprint

Route a simple PCB

Generate documents to manufacture PCB

Goal of this course

The main goal of this course is to go through a board design process (Schematic + Libraries + PCB + Outputs) to demonstrate and practice all the essential KiCad features which can be then used to create more complex boards.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Designing a simple board in KiCad

Lecture 1: What is this course about

Lecture 2: Installing & Examples

Lecture 3: Starting a project, Creating Schematic Symbol

Lecture 4: Creating Footprint

Lecture 5: Adding 3D model to footprint

Lecture 6: Assigning Footprint to Symbol, Updating Symbol

Lecture 7: Drawing Schematic

Lecture 8: Importing Schematic into PCB and Placement

Lecture 9: Doing Layout

Lecture 10: Rules & Settings

Lecture 11: 3D model, Updating Footprint, Assembly layer

Lecture 12: DRC Check

Lecture 13: Generating outputs: Schematic PDF, Gerbers, Drill File

Lecture 14: Generating outputs: Assembly Drawing, Pick & Place, BOM

Lecture 15: Thank you

Instructors

Robert Feranec
Motherboard designer, Youtuber, Lecturer

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2 stars: 1 votes

3 stars: 19 votes

4 stars: 66 votes

5 stars: 114 votes

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