How To Use KiCad to Make a Printed Circuit Board: Part 3 

I just wanted to thank you for these three videos. I had several "aha!" moments while watching them. Wonderfully clear presentation with virtually no hesitation, ums, ahs, or tedious repetition. And altogether you made it look easy enough that I'm strongly encouraged to have a go myself. I'm very impressed. So, thank you.

Excellent tutorial with very good presentation style. Probably one of the best Kicad for beginners tutorials on RU-vid.

Thank you so much - I have gone from zero to ordering my first batch of boards in 1 day. A few issues using KiCad 6 version that was different but I muddle through and am pretty happy with myself. Looking forward to future videos.

Very nice job on all three videos. Concise, clear, and straight to the point. I learned a lot about KiCad and have already started projects on my own. If I need help in the future - I'll be looking to your channel first. Awesome!

Thanks! Great starter tutorial! The UI of KiCAd and Eagle are NOT user friendly so a video like this was invaluable for me when switching from etching myself to getting some printed boards. A few points for others though: 1) This is an old version and a lot of the buttons and functions have changed. 2) The symbol libraries are totally different now and much larger. 3) There IS NO AUTO TRACE anymore. It was dropped from the program so you either have to lay out the traces yourself or you have to find a way to add a auto trace program as a plug-in. This is definitely possible, but it may be easier to just lay it out yourself depending on the size of you board. The buttons and functions and such may be different but it is also more streamlined as well as better looking/running now. Didn't take me too long to figure out the new way of doing the things in the video but I had a hell of a time looking for the auto button! lol

Hi Skinny i have seen all three videos on kicad they are best on the planet

I have to agree with everyone that these 3 tutorials were well presented and make something that looked complicated easy to do. Thanks!

Excellent set of tutorials, really easy to follow. Thanks for taking the time to put these up.

Excellent walk through of KiCAD for OSHPark, thank you!

Though kicad has changed some since you made this, and I only have a clue about what I'm doing, I really appreciate the time you took to put this together.

This was a great set of tutorials, well paced and easy to follow. Thank's so much.

I've look all over for a good beginners guide to KiCad and couldn't find any until I came across your site, and I must say your presentation is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for taking the time to explain. One question though; What if you want to make the circuit yourself? How do you go about printing it out and adding a logo of some sort?

Brilliant 3 videos - so clear, and I was able to navigate using 6.0 - brilliant for a beginner in KiCad.

Thank you Skinny R&D for this awsome video it was super easy to follow your instructions, today i did my second board first one was in January.

I really appreciate your videos and have purchased KICAD based on how helpful and well you demonstrate the use of KICAD. I found it really easy to draw the first schematic, however, when I go into PCB mode I have problems with the wire not connecting to the component. So the components cannot be connected. It seems like the wire is sticking to the mouse cursor. I would really appreciate any advice or even a youtube clip on how to resolve this issue. Again, thank you for your fantastic videos.

Thank you Mr.skinny ,these videos were very helpful.

the best video for me,you are de best ,nice audio and video,keep going.

I finally completed your board! Thanks, I might even etch the PCB at home too

Nice job, but one comment: NEVER place the component designator, e.g., 'P1', 'C4' inside the part outline. You (or another technician) will find it very difficult to work on if the designators are not visible, I.e., under the parts. Otherwise, pretty good tutorial. Thanks.

Very nice video. However, my old eyes had a hard time with the black screen parts. It has me convinced that Kicad is for me - much better than a pencil and eraser. Just one thing that I noticed on Part 3. After the autoroute (7:51) some tracks were green and some red. Obviously the green on one side and the red on the other. But why are there some red tracks when those red tracks do not cross over a green track? I do not see this as a problem, merely a curiosity.

Thanks for the video. Really great tutorial for beginners. Can you please let me know how to place a component at a exact location on the board defined by some co-ordiantes with respect to a origin. Also how to give a custom shape to the board (non-rectangular) with curves and splines. Thanks again :)

nice set of videos. ive been curious about kicad for a while now. seems like a winner to me. One thing id like to see or know, is there a way it can do a simulation of the circuit or is there perhaps another program that could handle the kicad files to do so. ?

You should also fill the plane up, it looks rather cool

Hi Jason. I went to the Kicad site and downloaded the recommended build (4.0.6) for my Windows 64bit OS, installed it and it worked until I tried to use the PCB layout tool. It then reported that the netlist was empty when I new it definitely was not. I downloaded the old stable version and tried that one and it worked perfectly! Have you tried V4.0.6 at all?

Jason, I would like to know if there is a way to tell the size of the PCB in Kicad?I've been enjoy your other video's and hope you will be making additional videos in the near future. Thanks for putting out some great and easy to follow tutorials.

Great tutorial series thank you! Bit sad KiCAD has removed the autorouter in 5.0 :(

Hello, thank you! Great work. I just have a problem when i run the current netlist there is a lot of errors showing in the little box. 3 different errors - "Error: Component 'Q4' footprint 'TO-92' was not found in any libraries in the footprint library table. " -"Error: Component 'Q4' footprint 'TO-92' was not found in any libraries in the footprint library table. - "Error Cannot add new component "Q2:/56D720CF" due to missing footprint "TO-92". Please let me know what should i do as i am doing a project for my Uni work thanks!

How do those traces cross each other in the same layer? There are some traces crossing each other here. Btw, thnx for this series. Very useful

Great video!! Did yo make anything for multiple layers PCB (KiCad)?

Jason thank you for tutorial, I was wondering why there is not a power and ground rail on the circuit board ?, and when I place component on schematic like LM555, they are missing ground and power pins. Thanks

Hi. At 10:45 you select the solder masks but you did nothing with them throughout the video. Do any modifications have to be made? This is my first PCB. I have the gerber files and drill file ready to go! Thanks for these videos!

amazing work. love from india.

Awesome Videos man. Really helped me out!! 1 question though, I'm sure someone has an answer for me... After I ran PCBnew to make my copper pads. When I was reading the "netlist" I got a number of error messages in the message box. The message read this; Error: Component 'U1' pad 'VI' not found in footprint 'Transistors_OldSowjetAera:OldSowjetaera_Transistor_Type-I_BigPads' I got a total of 7 Error messages similar to that but for different components. It looks like all of my components were carried over. So I'm kind of confused... Does that just mean I should go back to CvPCB and choose different footprints? or Is this just KiCAD having a "blonde moment?" Thanks Nick!!

Dumb question: With the footprints is the perspective from above or below the component? I assume it's the former, but I'm having allot of trouble finding the right footprint for the 2N3904 transistor.

Thank you!

Please help When press the "read current netlist" tab I get a list of errors stating missing footprints but I have added them all as per video.

....also, what are field zones? is it okay to omit them? i saw field zones in another video. thanks!

The final installment of the Kicad Tutorial. Enjoy! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mHx-fnpNc7Q.html

Hi, I am new in pcb design. i am facing the problem of generating the gerber file it shows like uploading failed, for what purpose it shows the error. can u help me.

It's a very finickety software to get used to

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