{"id":7360,"date":"2013-05-16T17:22:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T00:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=7360"},"modified":"2013-06-23T16:27:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T23:27:23","slug":"2013-05-16-more-on-kicad-on-the-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=7360","title":{"rendered":"2013-05-16 More on Kicad on the Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is sort of a continuation of my Raspberry Pi blog<\/a> of a few days ago.<\/p>\n

\"P1030606S2\"<\/a>I spent a few hours last night drawing up a schematic in Kicad on the wee beasty.\u00a0 It wasn’t easy.\u00a0 I used the tutorial to get up to speed on the small stuff, like placing components and drawing wires.\u00a0 The wires were especially difficult.\u00a0 They are not anywhere as easy to draw as with ExporessSCH.\u00a0 They want to do what they want to do, not what I want them to do.\u00a0 There was more than one time that I had the program stuttering and doing weird stuff, like putting wires on top of wires.\u00a0 It’s like there’s something not quite right about the algorithms that are supposed to be able to do the connecting.\u00a0 When I mouse over and press G for grab, there is a dialog box that pops up asking to clarify if I want the component or the wire.\u00a0 I choose the wire, but then when I try to grab the wire, the whole thing, component and wire, moves.\u00a0 The whole idea of the clarify question was to resolve which one I wanted, but in the end it doesn’t resolve.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, I’m not pleased that these problems are happening.\u00a0 Then there is the problem of the colors.\u00a0 I found the color preferences, and I changed most of them to black.\u00a0 Now the schematic looks a lot better in my opinion (see screen cap).<\/p>\n

Maybe tonight I’ll try to get the other parts of the program to do what they’re supposed to do: design a PC board.\u00a0 But I think that’s a big step, and not as easy as it seems.<\/p>\n

Update Jun 22 – I have officially rejected the Kicad program.\u00a0 I spent several hours trying to get through the tutorial.\u00a0 After suffering through a lot of frustration, it’s time to leave this user unfriendly program and go to some other more professional program.\u00a0 I wanted the program to work with Linux, but I don’t see other programs that are for anything other than Windows.\u00a0 I may go backe to ExpressPCB or something else like Eagle.\u00a0 If anyone needs more specific details, contact me at my yahoo.com email address acmefixer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is sort of a continuation of my Raspberry Pi blog of a few days ago. I spent a few hours last night drawing up a schematic in Kicad on the wee beasty.\u00a0 It wasn’t easy.\u00a0 I used the tutorial to get up to speed on the small stuff, like placing components and drawing wires.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

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