Re: Problems with Audio plug2
I am not trying to update: I'm trying to add
the modified symbol instead of the original. On your advice, I
added the original symbol, right-clicked and a small panel
opened: Cancel, Zoom, Grid.
On 2024-03-31 18:48, CW via groups.io
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How are you (attempting to) update your symbol in the schematic?
Typically it is right-click on symbol in schematic, select Update
Symbol... menu item, set things as appropriate...
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Re: Problems with Audio plug2
Thank you. I intend to do that, but at present
I have only this one modified symbol, so it is in the same
folder as the .pro and other files. I do not know how to add
this to the 'appropriate KiCad path'. Please advise.
On 2024-03-31 18:44, CW via groups.io
wrote:
You might find it beneficial to create your own personal library
of schematics parts. Then you can copy parts into it and modify
them as you wish, and use them in all your designs. You can add
your library to the appropriate KiCad path and it will always be
there for you.
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Re: Problems with Audio plug2
How are you (attempting to) update your symbol in the schematic?
Typically it is right-click on symbol in schematic, select Update Symbol... menu item, set things as appropriate...
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Re: Problems with Audio plug2
You might find it beneficial to create your own personal library of schematics parts. Then you can copy parts into it and modify them as you wish, and use them in all your designs. You can add your library to the appropriate KiCad path and it will always be there for you.
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Problems with Audio plug2
This symbol is in quite a lot of trouble.
First, it's HUGE, compared with the Audio Jack 2 symbol, so the
schematic looks very odd indeed. Second, the blue text says
'Jack', not 'Plug'. Third, the description is the one for Audio
Plug 4 (TRRS). I've tried to modify it to look more realistic,
and I have the modified symbol saved in the same folder as the
schematic, but the original symbol appears on the schematic.
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Thank you. Which version of KiCad do you have?
I'm not surprised about the LTspice 'dots', that are square.
On 2024-03-31 17:49, LV wrote:
Hi
The main "feature" - junction dot is not imported. ?
At least I tested with two LTspice schematics.
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Thank you.
On 2024-03-31 16:49, CW via groups.io
wrote:
Latest released version is 8.0.1.
Here. for Windows:
For others:
Agreed that there appears to be no 'Check for Update' button anywhere,
which seems like an omission.
On 3/31/2024 8:15 AM, John Woodgate wrote:
I started a new project under version 8.0 and a pane popped up to say
that there is an update, but it disappeared before I could do anything
about it. I cannot find any 'check for updates' command under Files,
Tools, Preferences or Help. On the Web site, I can only see version 8.0
and 'Nightly' available.
What I would very much like to do is import a schematic from LTspice. I
was told some time ago that it would be possible in version 8.x. Please
advise.
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Hi
The main "feature" - junction dot is not imported. ?
At least I tested with two LTspice schematics.
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Latest released version is 8.0.1.
Here. for Windows:
For others:
Agreed that there appears to be no 'Check for Update' button anywhere,
which seems like an omission.
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On 3/31/2024 8:15 AM, John Woodgate wrote: I started a new project under version 8.0 and a pane popped up to say
that there is an update, but it disappeared before I could do anything
about it. I cannot find any 'check for updates' command under Files,
Tools, Preferences or Help. On the Web site, I can only see version 8.0
and 'Nightly' available.
What I would very much like to do is import a schematic from LTspice. I
was told some time ago that it would be possible in version 8.x. Please
advise.
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I started a new project under version 8.0 and
a pane popped up to say that there is an update, but it
disappeared before I could do anything about it. I cannot find
any 'check for updates' command under Files, Tools, Preferences
or Help. On the Web site, I can only see version 8.0 and
'Nightly' available.
What I would very much like to do is import a
schematic from LTspice. I was told some time ago that it would
be possible in version 8.x. Please advise.
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John Woodgate, Rayleigh, Essex
UK
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Re: How to add non-default track widths?
On 28.03.24 07:58, brian wrote:
> When routing (X) right click, Select Track/Via Width, pick a width or enter
> a custom value.
Many thanks, Brian. That works a treat.
I'll get the hang of this over time. The trick is managing to make a
board before I'm fully up to speed. (My new off-grid solar installation
needs a couple of power diverters, one for the existing HWS (water
"boiler" in UK, I think.), one to be added. There's ample sun now, but winter is coming. Responding to frequency shift power availability signalling, and using low interference "burst fire" of the triac, are interesting exercises, as is reliable zero crossing detection. We'll see how it goes. There's sure to be some learning.)
Erik
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Re: How to add non-default track widths?
Which version of KiCad are you using? Just so the best advice can be given.
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On 3/28/2024 4:55 AM, dvalin@... wrote: By googling, I've discovered that the frozen track width selector in
Pcbnew is due to only one track width deliberately being allowed until
the hidden puzzle is solved. But after adding 4 more widths in the
Design Rules Editor, the selector is still frozen on the 0.25mm default.
An exit & restart shows that the extra 4 widths are now known to the
Design Rules Editor, but the selector still won't shift, either
beforehand or after shift-W.
All I need is to be able to select one of the added widths, then use
that for any chosen airwire, in the standard laying out process. Can
Kicad do that? Somehow?
One flummoxed Erik.
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Re: How to add non-default track widths?
When routing (X) right click, Select Track/Via Width, pick a width
or enter a custom value.
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By googling, I've discovered that the frozen track width
selector in Pcbnew is due to only one track width deliberately
being allowed until the hidden puzzle is solved. But after
adding 4 more widths in the Design Rules Editor, the selector is
still frozen on the 0.25mm default. An exit & restart shows
that the extra 4 widths are now known to the Design Rules
Editor, but the selector still won't shift, either beforehand or
after shift-W.
All I need is to be able to select one of the added widths,
then use that for any chosen airwire, in the standard laying out
process. Can Kicad do that? Somehow?
One flummoxed Erik.
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How to add non-default track widths?
By googling, I've discovered that the frozen track width selector in Pcbnew is due to only one track width deliberately being allowed until the hidden puzzle is solved. But after adding 4 more widths in the Design Rules Editor, the selector is still frozen on the 0.25mm default. An exit & restart shows that the extra 4 widths are now known to the Design Rules Editor, but the selector still won't shift, either beforehand or after shift-W.
All I need is to be able to select one of the added widths, then use that for any chosen airwire, in the standard laying out process. Can Kicad do that? Somehow?
One flummoxed Erik.
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Re: Promulgating a package edit to Pcbnew
Sorry for the noise. The Germans have a name for it, Vorführungseffekt?, if memory serves: The moment you attempt to demonstrate something, it goes awry. I've found the "Exchange Footprint: Change" button. A way to make that the default would be good. Maybe an update will?
Now I can chase a Case 730C-4 package for the MOC3052. (Who'd play videogames, when there's real stuff to chase? And the goal of a (working) PCB at the end.)
? Hmmm now, three decades later the internet seems to prefer Vorführeffekt.
Erik
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Promulgating a package edit to Pcbnew?
Using Properties -> Edit Footprint, I've changed the package for an LP2950 to Package_TO_SOT_SMD:TO-252-2, found using the "Select" button. I've subsequently run "Generate Netlist" in Eeschema, and "Read Netlist" in Pcbnew, but there the package shown remains the default TO92, somehow.
When I hit 'e' on the component in Eeschema, Fields: Footprint: shows the new
Package_TO_SOT_SMD:TO-252-2, as does the "Field Value" when that field is selected. But on the left, Library Symbol: shows Regulator_Linear:LP2950-5.0_TO92. Whether that's a contributor to the new package not reaching Pcbnew, is beyond my ken.
I thought I'd done well to figure out that DPAK is TO252 in Kicad, but now we need to make it stick.
While on packages, is there a quick way to find a 6 pin DIL package with flat-footed short pins, making a 0.3" wide DIL SMD? The MOC3052 devices I have are that funny package. The datasheet shows that as Case 730C-4. I tried selecting an Osram SFH9x0x package, but that also doesn't make it to Pcbnew, so I can see if it's the right size. I could maybe solder them onto a through-board drilled pad layout, but it would be inelegant - or is that what folk did with the bigger package?
I'll figure out how to update my Kicad version. That might help.
Erik
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Re: 2024 KiCad user survey
I've tried accessing the survey with Vivaldi, Firefox, and Pale Moon.
With all three I was able to get to the first question, but I didn't go
any further as I've already completed the survey. Maybe try again now
some time has passed? Someone may have been doing some server
housekeeping.
No GUI was used to send this email, BTW :)
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On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, dvalin via groups.io wrote:
Tried it just now, but hit:
"Error loading resources
This resource doesn't exist or you don't have the neccessary rights to
access it."
Several attempts, same result.
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Re: 2024 KiCad user survey
Hi Erik, I too am 70 and have used Kicad for a long while. You
can drag instead of move, and connections stretch.
This last year I have had to use Altium for one project, and imho
Kicad is easier to use for anything that has only one PCB and does
not require that wiring harnesses can be designed as part of the
overall project in the same CAD tool.
Andrew
On 06.03.24 06:42, Jon Evans wrote:
> The KiCad team is conducting a survey of users to get
more information
> about how people use KiCad and other design tools, and
what they like and
> dislike about it. This survey should only take a few
minutes to complete.
>
> Fill out the survey here: 2024 User Survey
> <>
>
> This survey will remain open until approximately May
2024.
Tried it just now, but hit:
"Error loading resources
This resource doesn't exist or you don't have the neccessary
rights to
access it."
Several attempts, same result.
In any event, I'm just familiarising on a first serious Kicad
project,
after years of using Eagle. I'm impressed to find not only
ATmegas, but
also a 6-pin DIL header already pin-identified as AVR-ISP-6,
so no need
to remember where miso, mosi, reset, and sck go. Nifty.
It's taking an hour or two to put into muscle memory how to
rotate, that
flip is mirror - about (not in) X or Y, that an Escape is
necessary to
leave the clutches of selected zoom when you now want to
select a
component group, and that wires do not stretch when that
group is moved
- they just disconnect.
The on-line manual is a life saver, especially for a 70 yo
who does not
find most GUIs even remotely intuitive. I find it's the user
who has to
be programmed. Eagle was stranger, I think. The fact that I
came across
just to have a look, but am staying, at least so far, says it
all, perhaps.
It'll be interesting when it comes time to send off the PCB
files.
Erik
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Re: 2024 KiCad user survey
On 06.03.24 06:42, Jon Evans wrote:
> The KiCad team is conducting a survey of users to get more information
> about how people use KiCad and other design tools, and what they like and
> dislike about it. This survey should only take a few minutes to complete.
>
> Fill out the survey here: 2024 User Survey
> <>
>
> This survey will remain open until approximately May 2024.
Tried it just now, but hit:
"Error loading resources
This resource doesn't exist or you don't have the neccessary rights to
access it."
Several attempts, same result.
In any event, I'm just familiarising on a first serious Kicad project,
after years of using Eagle. I'm impressed to find not only ATmegas, but
also a 6-pin DIL header already pin-identified as AVR-ISP-6, so no need
to remember where miso, mosi, reset, and sck go. Nifty.
It's taking an hour or two to put into muscle memory how to rotate, that
flip is mirror - about (not in) X or Y, that an Escape is necessary to
leave the clutches of selected zoom when you now want to select a
component group, and that wires do not stretch when that group is moved
- they just disconnect.
The on-line manual is a life saver, especially for a 70 yo who does not
find most GUIs even remotely intuitive. I find it's the user who has to
be programmed. Eagle was stranger, I think. The fact that I came across
just to have a look, but am staying, at least so far, says it all, perhaps.
It'll be interesting when it comes time to send off the PCB files.
Erik
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Re: 2024 KiCad user survey
I totally agree.? KiCad is a magnificent achievement.? The
improvements? in 8.0 have saved me a lot of work which I
appreciate.
On 24/03/2024 06:38, Dave Farrington
wrote:
On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 09:36 AM, John Hudak wrote:
Hmmmm, well if you are dissatisfied with how a
smallish group of people spend their 'free time' then you a
most welcome to contribute your time, energy, and skills to
move things along.? If your expectations are those of a
commercial product then you can always buy the commercial
product.
Well put. I've see a certain amount of work done in KiCad and I'm
impressed. I've used it to an extent coming from a bit of dabbling
in commercial product and I have to say KiCad meets and exceeds my
needs & expectations.
Cheers,
Dave F>
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