An Intro to KiCad - Part 2: Create a Schematic Symbol | DigiKey

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In Part two Shawn provides a detailed walkthrough of creating a custom schematic symbol in KiCad V4.07. Using a datasheet for a 7555 timer as a reference, Shawn creates Pins, assigns Pin labels, and lays them out according to his project. Not every part requires custom symbol creation and by utilizing Digi-Key’s symbol and footprint library you can create your schematic and layout your board much faster.
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@hongotopiadada7574 2 года назад

For version 6.0 things once again have changed a bit: From 2:04 to 5:30 you can substitute in the following: 1. Go to Tools >> Symbol Editor and press ok to load the library 2. go to "File" >> "new Library ..." >> "Project" and create a new Library for the component 3. click the new Symbol button and continue at 2:19 4. ignore everything from 3:35 to 5:30 At 7:40 the new way to create an active low pin is with ~{NAME} At 9:30 click to start drawing, click again to stop At 10:00 click the "Specify a new location for the symbol anchor" Button on the right At 10:25 click Save

@AlokSardesai 2 года назад

Thanks bruh

@absolutecheese820 2 года назад

I really appreciate this. Thank you for the help and tips.

@shinkuri2149 Год назад

Thanks!

@aimlelectronics4838 Год назад

thank you so much

@NeverJhonsen Год назад

Learning how to use this program, I would not have know those differences. Thanks for taking the time to include the update differences (:

@jasincolegrove6651 5 лет назад

You should be aware that the KiCad 5.0.0 windows version of this symbol editor is different. Anyone following this needs to Create a new Library and then right click the new Library in the left pane and select add new symbol. If you try to create the symbol without the library created it will force you to pick a library that is already available.

@deltaray3 5 лет назад

Thanks for explaining. The same is true for other platforms (Mac and Linux) as well.

@YesiPleb 5 лет назад

Thank-you!!! I was starting to get worried that I was going mad as I'm running Linux and my interface looked very different.

@mattsoftware 5 лет назад

Complete noob here, using mac, cannot find anywhere to "create a new library" :/

@mattsoftware 5 лет назад

Oh, I needed to get into the symbol editor first to be able to create a new library!

@TheMechatronicEngineer 5 лет назад

kiCad 5.0 is more straightforward

@miked877 Год назад

This is my third time watching this video and I still learned something new, the tilde (~). Because of your tutorials I have become very comfortable with KiCad. I just pushed my own boundaries by taking, an included symbol, and made minor modifications to suit my needs. I turned a switch with a lamp into a switch with an LED without creating a symbol from scratch. Yes, I made a copy to modify and kept the original intact. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

@cognetic 6 лет назад

OMG! I Love these videos!! Please keep them coming!!!!

@cognetic 6 лет назад

I also love how you visually show the keyboard commands. Tried to learn from other RU-vid tutorials, and has been confusing for me. I'm able to follow a lot easier here. Thank you thank you!

@ShawnHymel 6 лет назад

Most welcome! Camtasia lets me add them very easily, and I find it helpful to differentiate between very similar sounding letters, like 'm' and 'n'.

@SlEasyTarget 4 года назад

A really good video; I've been designing with kicad but today is the first time I've needed to design a symbol. Wanted a quick intro which doesn't treat me like a idiot. This was bloody perfect. Thanks. Also.. Nice Bow Tie.

@ahmedmuawiyah8985 4 года назад

Also.. LOL.

@chain3519 4 года назад

This is excellent, thank you!

@nopenadanowaynohow 4 года назад

REALLY need a new series using the new version of KiCad !! There are some pretty significant differences !

@willgmr Год назад

In the newest version of KiCad when I create a new symbol 5:44 I only get the "U" to show up, the other value doesn't appear.

@lincolnmicrophonellc 4 года назад

Thanks for these!

@DrewFustini 6 лет назад

Great video!

@happyhippr 5 лет назад

shawn we love you!

@ahmedgaafar5369 3 года назад

excellent tutorial thank you.

@sakugava 6 лет назад

Very, very good!

@techankhamun838 2 года назад

Nice video! Also to invert the input/output the tilde "~" doesn't do that on its own anymore and you have to use "~{" or "~{}" so tilde with at lease one open bracket!

@vishagrajendra4591 4 года назад

It would be helpful to add in the description which version of Kicad is being used for the tutorial. Using the Latest Version as per June 2020, and interfaces don't match

@dawnsartandmusic9341 5 лет назад

Could an updated tutorial be made please?

@lozD83 3 года назад

I can see why tutorials for KiCad have been so necessary/popular over the years. Thank goodness the current version (almost 3 years after this video was made) is far more intuitive! Still following this series all the same. Thanks, good fellow.

@jimmykessler8117 3 года назад

Excellent video! Slightly outdated due to software updates, but great explanations for several details about the KiCad software!

@burakg7246 Год назад

Shawn Hymel, we love you!!!

@damny0utoobe 4 года назад

* reminder for myself to watch this kicad tutorial later.

@hamzaaabouz3711 4 года назад

شكرااااا لك على هذه المعلومات و على مجهوذك .. تستحق التشجيع اناحن نتظر المزيد من المعلومات

@Berghiker 3 года назад

When drawing symbols, how do you make sure that every time you draw a symbol that they are all the same size related to each other?

@curtoBR 4 года назад

I have some dificult to make a componente like a CD4011, they have a logic diagram inside, and i wanna separate by this diagrams, but, when i export to pcnew I want them to be together in one DIP14 package. i cant find any tutorial about that.

@sudheerkumar5966 2 года назад

Very good

@Alex-rv8gw 3 года назад

For version 5 kicad list hotkey is ctrl+F1

@limchinchen7988 2 года назад

sir, if the pin name is very far apart from the pin, how can I adjust the distance between them?

@MrSamil1453 5 лет назад

Hi, İ have a problem with footprint i am trying to fix the footprint on the pcb but they are in different places. İ dont know how that i should to fit the footprint into pcb. İ would be very gratefull when u could help me. Thank you very much.

@Berghiker 3 года назад

How can you resize the symbol you just created?

@CicakMengkarung 5 лет назад

I am using Ver (5.1.0)-1 and it is difference from what shown in the video. It is difficult for new comer like me.

@Gruftgrabbler 3 года назад

yes i cant find the library editor either. very unfortunate cause I really liked him but its hard to follow what I am supposed to do

@Uvisir 11 месяцев назад

just download the version he uses then, thats what i did so i could follow

@Shockszzbyyous 5 лет назад

this was very usefull! except that some things have changed in KiCad 5.0.0 But other than that this helped me out a lot!

@deltaray3 5 лет назад

Something that wasn't obvious to me as drawing a polygon such as a box changes from program to program. You click once to start the box and then move the cursor. It's not "click and hold". This isn't immediately obvious in KiCad because clicking and holding still draws a selection box, so it seems like it's working until it doesn't keep the box you drew.

@okaytree7711 2 года назад

thank you this helped!

@arslankhan1058 Год назад

Thnx dude!

@sohotcall 5 лет назад

Are people zaman now still draw flowcharts before coding?

@AV1461 4 года назад

What about the footprint? How do you create and connect to a footprint?

@dnyaneshvarsalve2984 3 года назад

NICE

@kinetic1259 20 дней назад

Can you update this so it is relevant to the latest version?

@mirceacluj Год назад

it's hard to follow the steps he takes with the icons in kikad. I have linux and I don't have what he has. I read Help where it says that the editing of symbols must be done from those existing in kikad, i.e. "derivatives".

@TranscendentBen 3 года назад

With all of Kicad's changes over the years, the symbol editor STILL has the 'feature' that when you click OK in the Add Pin dialogue at 7:30 the mouse cursor jumps back to where you placed the pin. I can see where some would see that as convenient, but it breaks the User Interface that I've known for 35 years (since the original Macintosh). Who controls where the mouse cursor is, the user or the program? I find it disconcerting, and I know of no other program that does such a thing.

@mirceacluj Год назад

3.45 i dont have the line,circe ,rectangular active..all ist blind

@dnyaneshvarsalve 3 года назад

Can you please please update the videos as per latest version

@rtsservices3511 5 лет назад

how can i fill the symbol with the typical yellow color i often see in other examples ?

@ahmedbouzidi5080 5 лет назад

right click -> edit -> fill the background

@jhen_tumiri 5 месяцев назад

Thx for the input !! 🔥🔥🫠🫠

@limchinchen7988 2 года назад

Hi, I'm beginner. I face a problem in using kicad 6.0. Symbol editor there, when I create a 555 timer, the pin name is far away from pin number. How can I do?

@limchinchen7988 2 года назад

and also the trigger pin there can't show out the bar, how?

@romainf145 6 лет назад

Brand new and already outdated. KiCad 5 will be released soon, maybe worth considering for your tutorials?

@drojf 6 лет назад

The majority of the tutorial should be the same, I'm using the nightlies and it's very similar. You could probably just make a follow up video "Differences in KiCad 5' once it is released.

@ShawnHymel 6 лет назад

This is good to know, so I'll keep a "differences with KiCad 5" video in mind. Thank you.

@piggybladder 5 лет назад

'This slightly chaotic process' - you're not kidding! I came to your channel out of exasperation with the hopelessly structured videos on YT about kicad. I started a project on 4.something earlier in the year and recently updated to 5.0.0. I got lost around 2 mins on this vid then realised you're using an older version. Your context menus are different to 5.0.0. Never mind I can work that out but beginners won't. But seriously what we need is a long step-by-step video on the generic github library. How to d/l it - clone or zip - what's the difference? Where to put it. How to use it and how to mod items from it. I feel this should come between part 1 and 2 because beginners will always look for ready made symbols/components first. The github library is probably the best generic library I've seen in any prog (and is the reason I switched from DesignSpark). Also it's quicker (and easier for beginners) to mod an existing model than starting from scratch. After that we can learn creating models from scratch. We only want to create from scratch when we absolutely have no choice but to do so. What's really important with custom libraries is to save them in such a way that they're retrievable in the event of a hard drive failure. I learned this the hard way - two fucked drives in a week and 100+ hrs up the Swanny. IMO it's best to save custom libraries in, for instance, Onedrive or Googledrive so they're continuously saved in real time.

@jessermejia 5 лет назад

@@piggybladder it sounds like you need a github tutorial.. getting into git will clear up your downloading questions.. and also provide a place for you to do version control so you won't lose things in the event of hard drive failures. Look for Shiffman's github for poets videos

@shoryakakran6508 День назад

anyone else also facing the problem of drawing a rectangle around the IC

@phil85813 5 лет назад

I totally disagree about the ERC being more trouble than it's worth. It only takes a few seconds to identify the pins correctly, include the correct power flags, etc. Imagine going to the trouble of making a board that had a fault, only to realize later that ERC would have picked it up. Best to start good habits early.

@shmoopfox3652 2 года назад

nice tutorial keep the bowtie

@mirceacluj Год назад

1.33 here are already 2 icons, two created folders .. the video is not from zero start game

@tallgeese1 4 года назад

In KiCad 5.1.6 - Tools | Edit Schematic Symbols

@tallgeese1 3 года назад

This is great content, but it needs a refresh. UI elements have been renamed and moved around.

@mirceacluj Год назад

probably in windows it is different than in linux..

@vinamarora7049 3 года назад

Starting with showing how to make custom symbols is a brilliant move. The absence of some symbols is one of the most off-putting things for beginners

@charlesklein7232 2 года назад

INFORMATION! - Tools > Edit Schematic Symbols > Right Click on Libraries Pane on Left > New Library > Set it to 7555_Badge > Find 7555_Badge on left pane > New symbol to see that menu where you can set the component properties - COPIED FROM COMMENTS ON THIS PAGE!

@abhyudaya98 4 года назад

Hi, I am running KiCAD on mac and can't find the "Run Library Editor" option. Can someone please help me out here. Tx a lot :)

@abhyudaya98 4 года назад

Thx Jasin, finally understood what you meant. For people who are still figuring what to do - Tools > Edit Schematic Symbols > Right Click on Libraries Pane on Left > New Library > Set it to 7555_Badge > Find 7555_Badge on left pane > New symbol to see that menu where you can set the component properties

@charlesklein7232 2 года назад

@@abhyudaya98 THANK YOU SO MUCH! I GOT THIS FAR! it now shows the name on the screen and a "U" on top of it? im using 5,1,12 12/23/21 linux ubuntu but it seems so complicated im at a loss as to were to go from here! been at this for 1 year and accomplished nothing! i mean whats the point if nobody understand this.

@chrisw1462 4 года назад

And NOW... a commercial break for some 555 history. Was your video planner board (sic) to tears? (See what I did there? Board... bored..??? ) I guess he wanted his viewers to be bored as well.

@ScottPlude 2 года назад

this has nothing to do with version 6.

@herceg6772 4 года назад

Please pdate the tutorial, otherwise it very hard to follow your steps or the current tutorial. it makes everything useless

@charlesklein7232 2 года назад

are you some type of "masochist?" i dont find anything here worth being HIGHLIGHTED about! if you want to highlight something why dont you try the second comment were i explain how to accomplish something! im learning more from reading the comments! you are accomplishing something in that form.

@BigBaddaBoom 2 года назад

Just a Warning to everyone, If you want to follow this tutorial, be sure to download the old version of kicad. Apparently, the developers like to start over with completely new workflows and layouts and code with each version. Despite updates provided in the comments, Thank you BTW, I still can not find where, how to edit Symbols, but, I have 7 kicad programs open and none of them have this function. I am ow going back to download Kicad 4.07.

@TimHavens 3 года назад

Too bad KiCad is so frigging convoluted. It could be so useful ... and it is for some folks. But I don't have the time to spend just to get around all the software shortcomings.

@charlesklein7232 2 года назад

can i ask do you have a better one to use? i cant figure this out and their are alot of them to chose from1 which one would you recommend?

@alexbrown1050 2 года назад

Til-day. Nah, it's pronounced tilled, right?

@charlesklein7232 2 года назад

TOTAL WASTE OF MY TIME! im using 5.1.12 nothing your showing works! i understood absolutely noting you were talking about or how to get anything to work!! its 12/20/21

@kgrach 2 года назад

This video is so out of date as to be nothing more than an overall concept video. kicad is not even on the site listed in the video. Needs to be updated really badly.

@thestorminmormin1442 4 месяца назад

This tutorial seems to be very out of date now.

@salvationude-natha398 3 месяца назад

Thats true bro, i downloaded the kicad 8.0 last night and whatever hes doing, im not seeing in this newer version of Kicad.

@salvationude-natha398 3 месяца назад

Have you found any youtuber with a relatively newer kicad model?

@tasmedic 2 года назад

As a beginner, I don't really want to be 2 videos into this series and only taught how to make a symbol for the library. There are heaps of free libraries I can download, with the 555 timer in it, including it's footprint. I want to be designing schematics and making PCB's, not designing symbols. This series is wasting my time and I'm moving on.