What means the slash in /SDA ?
There exists also a net called SDA.
Are the slash variants related to the parent sheet of my flat hierarchy?

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Works perfectly!

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Yes, a flat hierarchy.

First you should create a schematic representing the circuit you want to
build a PCB board for. Have you done that?

Chris
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I have a linear arrangement (240mm long) for replicated circuits of the hierarchical daughter sheet.
I want to draw 4 freestanding tracks (2 power and 2 signal) along the long edge and connect the replicated circuits with them.
Usually I start a track at a pad, but how can I do it without a pad?
I tried with free-standing vias, but had no luck.

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Thanks for this very helpfull hint.

I always used the cursor keys, not the mouse when I want precise control.

Also the rel org figurers keep things on track

I select the start point, hit space to zero the rel co-ords then place
the line with the cursor keys. You can use the values in the rel or-ords
to ensure that you are aligned with a side or corner.

Andy


On Thu, 30 Jun 2022 13:17:54 +0200
"Axel Rau" <Axel.Rau@...> wrote:

Thanks for your answer.

Am 28.06.2022 um 22:42 schrieb Jorge Ferreira <jorgef.tech@...>:

Hi


Using Kicad 5.1.12

I use the "add graphic lines" tool.

Click at the start point, click once every corner and double click at the last (first) corner to close.

The result is one line between each 2 corners.


AFAIK it still works in Kicad 6.

Yes, it works. But it is clumsy, if you have to use a fine grid.

The rectangle tool being constraint to a quadrate looks like a bug in 6.0.6 to me.

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Thanks for your answer.

Hi


Using Kicad 5.1.12

I use the "add graphic lines" tool.

Click at the start point, click once every corner and double click at the last (first) corner to close.

The result is one line between each 2 corners.


AFAIK it still works in Kicad 6.


Best regards

Jorge

Hi all,

simple question:
How can I define a rectangle for the edge cut?

With the rectangle tool I can draw quadrates by clicking at start and end point.
A rectangle is shown when I drag from the start point, but I can’t make it persistent (do I need to double click there? I tried.)
Using inspect with the measure tool on the quadrat does not allow me to change dimensions to a rectabgle.

This is 6.0.6 on macos 10.15.7

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Hi Craig,
Seems exactly what I am looking for.

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It seems, that the scripting console could help.

Hi all,

I’m doing my 1st KiCad project.

I created a simple parent sheet and a schematic of a circuit which should be repeated 10 times on the board.
Everything worked fine but it seems that I have to do the layout 10 times manually, which makes the hierarchical design useless.
Is there (in 6.0.5) any possibility to derive the other 9 layouts from the 1st one or even better to keep them synchronized?

I found this FAQ

where I read, this feature will be in 7.0 and the plugin, which did this job, does no longer work.

What is current best practice?

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Hi Gene,

I suspect we knew each other back on the linux kernel mailing list
from 12+ years ago, and from the RadeonHD and linux-kernel mailing
lists. We both have distinctive names! I've never used Eagle myself,
just KiCad and found it to make designing and fabbing my own (simple)
boards quite nice. It's getting all the rest of the electronics and
interfacing with the outside world that is the tough part!

Good luck with your projects!

"gene" == gene heskett <gheskett@...> writes:

gene> On Monday, 6 June 2022 14:38:29 EDT you wrote:

Hi Gene,

I think I recognize your name from along time ago on various other
mailing lists. Liad maybe? Or something other technical? Who knows.

Anyway, welcome to the KiCad group and the tool! It's really amazing
what you can get done with it now days.

Cheers,
John Stoffel
john@...

gene> Thanks for the welcome John, and yes the name does have an old echo of
gene> familiarity, but don't now recall the list. I did at one point inhabit
gene> the eagle list and used it a few times, but gave up on it and wrote my
gene> own gcode for the simple circuits I was using for encoders and such on my
gene> cnc machines.

gene> Thats not the only list of course as my interests are best described as
gene> varied.

gene> Now I have a gage sensor to mount, but can't find its footprint in the
gene> debian 11 repo's old kit. It doesn't seem to have a footprint directory,
gene> or perhaps KICAD has a different name for such? IDK.

gene> Its a Honeywell TBPLLLN015PCUCV. Surface mount, 7 mm square 6 contact
gene> pattern.

gene> So I'd imagine I have to build it from the tarball, but can't find the
gene> right round tuit. At my age, 87, its pretty easy to misslay it, and then
gene> can't remember where it is.

gene> I've about a 10mm sq. space to glue the pcb with the footprint cut into
gene> it. And a whole bunch of 603 series resistors and capcitors to mount on
gene> an eval board for an ADA4099-1 high voltage op-amp.

gene> The final target is regulating the air pressure to a mister on a heavily
gene> modified 6040 mill by pwm-ing the power to a bank of 5, small diapram
gene> compressors I can't even hear running over the other cooling fans in the
gene> mills electronics. Feed that from the 2hp shop compressor and what little
gene> hearing I have left would soon go away. Not to mention burning up that
gene> conpressor, it wasn't built to long tolerate a 50% duty cycle. Harbor
gene> Freight special. Nuff said. :o(>

gene> Take care & stay well John.

gene> Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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gene> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
gene> -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
gene> If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
gene> - Louis D. Brandeis

On Monday, 6 June 2022 19:42:55 EDT you wrote:

Do they have a datasheet with the footprint detail? It's easy to make
your own footprint in KiCad.

The base is 7mm square, with 6 "pins" but it is analog out so only uses 3
of the 4 corner pins. I have a 6040 mill, with a 24k rev spindle and
engraving bits, and can write gcode, so for a one off, thats likely what
I'll do. The biggest problem is the lack of flat on the 6040's extruded
bed. So a pcb holding pallate must first be made to establish a truely
flat place to hold the pcb. The artwork I do have from honeywell is
pretty, but contains no measurement data other than the footprint is 7mm
square. Even pin1 isn't obviously Id'd.

The other problem is parts availability for 603 family resistors and
capacitors. The usual suspects are out of stock re the capacitor
assortments.

So we'll muddle along with temporary compressor speed controls. I can do
them in the linuxcnc gui with pyvcp tools.

How big a pix (in kilobytes, base-64'd) can I post, my camera is quite hi
rez and its difficult to shrink what I get down to a submissable size
without jpeg artifacts being pretty obvious.

Thanks all.

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
- Louis D. Brandeis