Hi http://kicad-pcb.org/download/gentoo/: "KiCad 4.0.4 is available in in the official gentoo packages. "
this is wrong, we ship 4.0.7
I suggest just to remove the version number there. We update usually short after release
perhaps also interesting: https://repology.org/metapackage/kicad/versions
or https://repology.org/metapackage/kicad/badges
these update automatically

@poeschlr
If you read the IPC-7351 "Land Pattern Naming Convention Notes", it specifies the following:

• All dimensions are in Metric Units
• All Lead Span and Height numbers go two places past the decimal point and “include” trailing Zeros
• All Lead Span and Body Sizes go two place before the decimal point and “remove” leading Zeros
• All Chip Component Body Sizes are one place to each side of the decimal point
• Pitch Values are two places to the right & left of decimal point with no leading Zeros but include trailing zeros

In KLC, G1.9 covers the first bullet.

I'm concerned with the second, third, and fifth bullets. I don't see KLC specifying the significant digits but we probably should. It would not only conform with KLC, but remove ambiguity and should be easy enough to catch in a check script.

If you're updating KLC, and agree, you could add a significant digits requirement where appropriate. I assume F2.1 would be the right place and it needs a few updates to meet the significant digits specification above.

The error:-
An assertion failed
../src/common/object.cpp(251): assert "classTable->Get(m_className) == NULL" failed in Register(): Class "wxCommandEvent" already in RTTI table - have you used IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS() multiple times or linked some object file twice)?
What does all his mean, can you help.
Kicad 4.0.7
Debian 9
my name, Isaac Shields Email; [email protected]
I did have a black screen trouble, I have fixed that but now the kicad not working

The following page can be accessed by clicking on the breadcrumbs of an article inside "Discover" :
http://test.kicad-pcb.org/discover/

The blog header is inadequate (This is a listing of the blog posts. Don't expect...), and the page might lack value.

Existing links and shortcuts to docs.kicad-pcb.org will be broken, any resource requests should receive a HTTP 301 response:

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://kicad-pcb.org/help/documentation/

Folks, git-bzr is no longer available under Fedora, having been replaced by git-remote-bzr. This package is also available on Ubuntu, and is a different script than the one you are currently referencing.

I started doing the changes to reflect this on the page, but ended up with a glaring problem: git-remote-bzr does not allow you to push to a non-existant branch in bzr (as done in the example).

Suggestion to either change everything over to git-remote-bzr to have a unified setup and try to get them to add this feature while documenting a workaround, or to document the install process of git-bzr-ng on Fedora.

I can do either of those, but would be good to know if there are preferences.

We definitely need a custom 404 page with a single click to the homepage.
This requires some server configuration to use 404.html, which is currently empty.

This is especially important since most inbound links are now broken... Just try googling for KiCad.

Providing an AppImage would have, among others, these advantages:

• Applications packaged as an AppImage can run on many distributions (including Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, CentOS, elementaryOS, Linux Mint, and others)
• One app = one file = super simple for users: just download one AppImage file, make it executable, and run
• No unpacking or installation necessary
• No root needed
• No system libraries changed
• Works out of the box, no installation of runtimes needed
• Optional desktop integration with appimaged
• Optional binary delta updates, e.g., for continuous builds (only download the binary diff) using AppImageUpdate
• Can optionally GPG2-sign your AppImages (inside the file)
• Works on Live ISOs
• Can use the same AppImages when dual-booting multiple distributions
• Can be listed in the AppImageHub central directory of available AppImages
• Can double as a self-extracting compressed archive with the --appimage-extract parameter

Here is an overview of projects that are already distributing upstream-provided, official AppImages.

A while back I had made some test AppImages, see the discussion here:
https://forum.kicad.info/t/kicad-appimage-for-linux/4963/7
Note that this was just a quick proof-of-concept. While I do not have the time (nor KiCad knowledge) to maintain an AppImage build myself, I'd be happy to help the KiCad project setting one up.

If you have questions, AppImage developers are on #AppImage on irc.freenode.net.

I am hoping that you will deem...

http://KicadHowTo.com

... valid to be listed at...

http://kicad-pcb.org/community/sites/

http://kicad.org seems to redirect to https://kicad-pcb.org instead of http://kicad-pcb.org

Have a system on a rockchip ....aarch64 running ubuntu xenial 16.04.3 LTS and can get all of the ancillary packages but cannot do a apt-get install for kicad.

Error is as follows;
Package kicad is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'kicad' has no installation candidate

Yes I have added this repository to pull from....

Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/js-reynaud/kicad-4/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/js-reynaud/ppa-kicad/ubuntu xenial InRelease

According to the package list all the rest are marked "all" and I can get but kicad labeled "arm64" and seems I can't get it. Thank you as I also have armhf and x86 system which all seem to work. I am trying to replace my Eagle systems. This particular one I use as I travel....Normally in NZ.

[email protected]

Is anyone opposed to adding a link to GSIK on this page:
http://test.kicad-pcb.org/help/documentation/

Currently the only link is deep inside Help>Tutorials

There is a page in Discover>Getting Started but I'm afraid that maintaining it will be harder that just linking to GSIK, especially for translations.

Please update teho Labs tutorial:
http://kicad-pcb.org/help/tutorials/

Link to new location:
http://babryce.com/kicad/tutorial.html

teho Labs website will shut down in 2018.

We need to license the website to match the kicad documentation.
https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-doc

This means it will be under dual license of GNU General Public License (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html) version 3 or later, and the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Please reply to this github issue that you approve of licensing your
contribution(s) to the website repository as such. Otherwise (hopefully not) we'll have to remove them.

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Per the new guidelines, projects must now meet one of the requirements in the contributing guidelines:
https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-website/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.adoc

Unfortunately neither of the EITI or ECG project pages meet this requirement visibly. If you wish for the projects to remain and the products are commerical, meeting the requirement of a link back to KiCad is enough.

Would it be possible to add www.rusefi.com to "made with kicad" list?

rusefi is an open source (automotive) engine control unit, both firmware and kicad hardware are available at https://github.com/rusefi/rusefi

The nicest HW picture is http://rusefi.com/wiki/images/f/f5/Frankenso_top-isometric_notes.png from http://rusefi.com/wiki/index.php?title=Manual:Hardware_Frankenso_board

Hello
A dependency is missing for building from source with debian : libboost-test-dev is required but not mentionned in http://kicad-pcb.org/download/debian/

Using a link checker it looks like we have some KLC klinks linking to broken URL's:
http://kicad-pcb.org/klc/S5.2
http://kicad-pcb.org/klc/S4.3
http://kicad-pcb.org/klc/S4.5

These are the ones linked to which are 404, I think they miss libraries in the URL. I reported this because I am not able to fix it right now.

According to the instructions on
http://kicad-pcb.org/contribute/developers/

1. you download the kicad source and create a feature branch
2. Before you create the patch you do an update of the "master" branch "kicad"
   and then update your featur-branch with "bzr merge ../kicad" (oarund the middle of the home page)
   next command is "bzr diff > feature.patch"

however if you follow the instructions straight from the homepage "bzr diff" would not generate
anything (it is already committed)

My suggestion (to be consistent to the instructions och creatign a feature branch and the update/commits) is to change

"bzr diff > feature.patch"
into
"bzr diff --old ../kicad > feature.patch"

I have identified an abnormal behavior when editing the properties of a symbol.

To highlight it, just click twice on the symbol, the window where you can mirror the symbol appears.

Under "Position" item select Mirror vertically. The result will be a Horizzontally mirrored symbol.
Double click again on symbol. Meanwhile in the "Position" item, Mirror Horizzontally will become active.
Select again Mirror vertically and finally you will get a vertically mirrored symbol.

OS: Fedora 27 x86_64
Kicad : Nightly build

Application: kicad
Version: 5.0.0-rc2-dev-unknown, debug build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.2
libcurl/7.55.1 OpenSSL/1.1.0g zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.4 libpsl/0.18.0 (+libidn2/2.0.3) libssh2/1.8.0 nghttp2/1.25.0
Platform: Linux 4.15.4-300.fc27.x86_64 x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
wxWidgets: 3.0.2 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 2.24
Boost: 1.64.0
Curl: 7.55.1
Compiler: GCC 7.3.1 with C++ ABI 1011
Build settings:
USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=OFF
BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
KICAD_USE_OCE=OFF
KICAD_SPICE=OFF

Hugo errors + broken breadcrumbs among other problems when you upgrade past 0.16.

Need to fix, adding as a note to self

Has anyone successfully ported this to chromebook?

Did i screw something up in one of my last two pull requests or does it simply take a long time until the webserver creates updates?

I figure that a newcomer wouldn't understand what "PL Editor" (or others) is from reading the following page:
http://test.kicad-pcb.org/help/documentation/

I admit that the information is in KiCad General.

Hi,
Instructions on the developers contribute page (http://kicad-pcb.org/contribute/developers/) still show the instructions for setting up Bazaar, despite the official switch to git (http://kicad-pcb.org/post/git-announcement/).

Turns out I should defined the travis ci script to install a specific asciidoctor version as it has now updated to be emit even more errors

But it has found an issue. One was an unterminated table block.

But there are two include statements somewhere that are scoping outside the repo and need to be fixed.
https://travis-ci.org/KiCad/kicad-website/builds/375917971#L563

it seems to be missing the 3d pcb view exportable in a 3d format like stl so it can be imported to blender , openscad and other cad packages as its usefull for when creating an enclosure ie mounting points cut outs for connectors and such

The how to contribute section could benefit from a rework.

1. One thing to add would be a link to the repos to which pull requests should be made
2. Another thing to change is removing old unused communication channels. (I don't think any of the current librarians use IRC. so we should not write it such that the users get the idea that we guarantee to be reachable via that channel)

http://ci.kicad-pcb.org/job/any-kicad-doc-head/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/src/GUI_Translation_HOWTO/GUI_Translation_HOWTO.html
Referring page:
http://kicad-pcb.org/contribute/developers/

The plugin manual is able to access from here.
http://docs.kicad-pcb.org/en/plugins.html

This manual is for the programmer not for user,
then how about adding "Developers manual" section in the docs page.
http://kicad-pcb.org/help/documentation/
And place plugin manual under there.

Thanks

The tag line it at least mildly incorrect:

A Cross Platform And Open Source Electronics Design Automation Suite

At very least, "And" should be "and" by convention. I was going to just submit a PR, but really, I'm not fond of how long this is in general, it feels awkward to me. So I thought I'd ask. What about this?

Cross Platform and Open Source Electronics Design

Or

Cross Platform, Open Source Electronics Design

We could even omit "Cross Platform" - most large open source projects these days are.

To me, it seems awkward how the tagline flows into the next line - particularly breaking in the middle of an "important" phrase, I don't like "Electronics \ Design Automation" being split like that:

http://misc.c4757p.com/tagline.png

Thoughts?

Please add a link to the official gentoo package too:
https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sci-electronics/kicad

install with:

emerge sci-electronics/kicad

Errors were encountered loading footprints:
IO_ERROR: http GET command failed
Cannot get/download Zip archive: 'https://codeload.github.com/KiCad/Connectors.pretty/zip/master'
for library path: 'https://github.com/KiCad/Connectors.pretty'.
Reason: 'IO_ERROR: curl_easy_perform()=7: Couldn't connect to server
from kicad_curl_easy.cpp : Perform() : line 92'
from github_plugin.cpp : remoteGetZip() : line 554

Hi,

We would request you to feature the following Video Tutorial on http://kicad-pcb.org/help/tutorials/ under "Video Tutorials" section.

KiCad like a Pro by Peter Dalmaris (~7 hours 36 minutes)

Thanks

The build instructions at the bottom of http://kicad-pcb.org/download/debian/ do not list dependencies for scripting (swig, wxpython), nor mention the possibility of enabling scripting when building. I think the official Debian builds might omit that? We should still include it in our own build instructions though, it's an official part of KiCad.

It is difficult to find out where to report problems with the website. I suggest that a small section is added to the "Home -> Help -> Report a bug" page on the main website, pointing to the kicad website issue tracker.

As it is now, it is not obvious that you should go to "Contribute -> Docs team" to report a bug on the website.

I've been drawing small schemas with version 4.07 for a long time, always OK. For some time there is a mistake: I can also change the value of a resistor, or other parts. If I want to continue then sometimes it goes again, then it's over. Save project, close, reopen and you can continue this way, 1 or 2 object. This happens with the Windows 10 version, on the latest version. I have then tried the same project on the Linux machine Mint 18.2, there it works flawlessly. So I can draw the schema on Windows is fine, to determine the values I have to do it on Linux. There is version 4.02, older version.
I translated everything with Google because my English is minimal, I can understand datasheets, but I have to translate a text.
I think the idea of KiCad is good, that's why I reported the error. Is there a job in Germany where you could also report it?
Best regards
Michel
my Email: [email protected]

http://docs.kicad-pcb.org/pcbnew/pcbnew.html
http://docs.kicad-pcb.org/pcbnew/pcbnew.epub
And every other language come up as not found.

404 Not Found
nginx/1.0.15

On this page

http://kicad-pcb.org/download/osx/

the link referencing building form source is broken.

After downloading KiCad for Windows 32bit computer I try to install and get an error message.

I have tried installing on 2 different 32 bit PC's and get same result.

The image at the end of the F5.1 paragraph has a wrong rendered aspect ratio, despite the original file (/img/klc/F4.1a.png - BTW, the filename is inconsistent with the paragraphs numbering) is correct. See the attached screenshot.

Rendered on Firefox 57.0.2 / Win64

Sabayon Linux has kicad in our repository. its simple to install using the GUI Rigo or CLI "equo install kicad".

We'd like to be added to your download page list if possible 👍

you can take a look at our distro at www.sabayonlinux.org

This does not cause any problem as far as I can tell, but most links use absolute URLs, for instance here is the generated HTML for a menu link:

<a href="http://kicad-pcb.org/post/">

Most cases could be replaced by the following, which seem more conventional to me:

<a href="/post/">

Benefits:

• Shorter text
• Serving HTTPS and HTTP simultaneously will be easier
• Does not depend on a specific hostname
  Is there a reason not to change this? I would be happy to do the work.

Another subject is the canonical domain name, which used to be www.kicad-pcb.org, but has dropped the www. today. Is this intentional, and should we adapt the documentation?

When I go to http://kicad-pcb.org/download/, it still lists 4.0.0 release as default.

This page should display relevant information as soon as new release has been made.

The KiCad PDF documents (March 2, 2016) as well as the web site are a faint gray
and very difficult to read. I can use an add-on to fix the web pages but I'm finding
the PDFs a show-stopper to picking up KiCad.

I know that projects like KiCad take accessibility issues seriously and that they can
often be difficult to work out but this one is very simple to get right.

I'll refer to the W3.org Web Content Accessibility Guidelines as a helpful reference:
https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/NOTE-UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20-20161007/visual-audio-contrast-contrast.html

1.4.3 Contrast (Minimum): The visual presentation of text and images of text has
a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1

Thanks for your consideration. This would be a big help.

Hi,

I have completed the Schematic in KiCad. Later I have noticed about the Grid Size, it was wrong. I would like to change the Grid Size. But for that I need to redraw the Schematics. Is there any other way to change the Schematic Grid Size rather than doing from the scratch?

Could you please help me to resolve this issue?

The kicad-doc repo links (https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-doc/blob/master/LICENSE.adoc) to kicad-pcb.org as the source to find the license. Obviously we don't have it

Will add this tonight probably..

@nickoe

Hello,

A couple of notes...

• The KiCad Spanish translation was featured on hackaday.com (first message
  ever in Spanish on hackaday). Maybe it is of interest to publish it on the
  KiCad webpage in the (DISCOVER->IN THE MEDIA) section.

Link:
http://hackaday.com/2016/02/11/kicad-traducido-al-espanol/

• There has been some interest among some users about a Spanish forum about
  KiCad, so I published one here: www.elektroquark.com/forokicad. It's
  starting now but, could it be linked from the COMMUNITY section?

Best regards.

On http://kicad-pcb.org/help/documentation/ there is a list of sections to click. Clicking on one of those will cause the page to scroll down to the relevant documentation. However, it scrolls the title to the top of the page, but then the title is hidden by the top bar, causing some confusion. The attached illustrations explains this better.

This is when clicking "Pcbnew":

This is what I would have expected when clicking "Pcbnew":

@nickoe

We have a few made with kicad projects that don't provide kicad source files or any source files really. At a minimum I say gerbers should be available. We should probably define this as policy.

Projects:
CSEduino (i swear there was something before, now theres no 0 reference to kicad and no of course no files)
Crazyflie, it appears no actual source files are shared for kicad, just printed PDFs. I don't even think Gerbers are avaliable. Even their "kicad library" page on their wiki is blank.
EITI: No source files, looks like commerical page now.
Electrosmart: no source files

@stambaughw