KiCad Tutorial - A to Z of PCB Design for Beginners

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KiCad Tutorial - A to Z of PCB Design for Beginners

00:00 Intro
00:44 A - Add or Append
01:16 B - Board Outline
02:57 C - Copper Tacks or Copper Pour
05:40 D - Design Rules
06:30 E - Edit
07:57 F -Fiducial
08:35 G - Gerbers
09:40 H - Holes
10:47 I - Images
11:33 J - Just do it
12:01 K - Keep out
13:05 L - Layers
14:17 M - Mechanical
15:28 N - New Project
16:19 O - Overlay
16:38 P - Place Component
18:09 Q - Questions
18:50 R - Rats Nests
19:30 S - Soldermask
20:22 T - Text
22:11 U - Unconnected Tracks
23:11 V - Vias
24:30 W - Wire
25:21 X - X outs
26:23 Y - Why?
26:54 Z - Zero Position
28:04 Outro

In this video, we have a little fun with the alphabet. Explaining KiCad PCB Design from A to Z. This video is aimed at beginners and people who are new to PCB design. At the top, you can press on what letter of the alphabet you would like to focus on :)

This is supposed to just highlight some terms and principle, I do not go into to much detail otherwise we will be here the whole day :)

Will make independent videos on each letter.

Let me know your why?!?!

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[sagargaikwad]

How to choose components on the pcb.as per the board design.

[RelentlessHomesteading]

Nice little tutorial. Found your video by the search - one would never guess "PlubPot" had anything to do with technology.
For me its really coming back to this realm. I started making PCB over 50 years ago when a teenager, then went on in electonic engineering.
At that time we used tape on clear plastic sheets following by a photographic process. Red and Blue tapes if a two sided board, more that two sides got real hairy.
One company I was at were early adopters of the first layout and simulation tools. Its been a couple decades since, as I moved into the Intellectual Property realm.
NOW -- slowly getting back into the electronics in creating many custom projects for our homestead in the country. Some I plan on making many copies, such as for perimeter security, and various monitoring functions. Marvelous to be able to get boards made cheaply at the moment.

[lars-magnusskog]

I'm basically getting into KiCad because I'm going into electronics in general. The first use case for me is to be able to draw schematics to increase my understanding and maybe later on get into pcb design. So I'm primarily interested into learning more about schematics, just so I can draw circuits, show them in a blog etc.

[cinnaeus]

Thanks for the video! I’ve been trying to get started in pcb design to create synths and other electronic musical instruments. Something that would be interesting for me would be to know how to modify an existing design. Say...add a lipo battery circuit to it, or change the audio connectors to another component in the schematic and pcb design.

[stevecorrell]

I've been in new product development since 1973 and am still making a living as a W2 Contractor working for 1 to 2 companies per year. 4 of the last 5 companies used Altium which cost ~ $7500 per year. Orcad was inexpensive back in the late 1990's, but I'm using it for my current client and it cost over $5000 per year. The reason I'm interested in KiCad is that I have projects I want to design for myself, but I don't want to spend thousands of dollars each year as the cost of ownership becomes prohibitive, for projects that might not sell. KiCad looks very easy and intuitive. My main questions have to do with how to import symbols, footprints and 3D models (step files) and how readily available they are?

[BobWong-sv]

Can you show me how to get a Negative image of the normal Positive run. As you know UC light process need a negative image. Thanks

[Berghiker]

In my radio circuits, ground is ALWAYS the larger surface or thicker lines unless the supply or Islands are drawing tons of current.

[Berghiker]

How do you take a schematic from a pic and load it into kicad or is that not possible?

[Berghiker]

Can you SHOW me how to start off with the ground plane first, on the pcb? ALL on one side of the pcb! No one can make a video and show me how to do this. Is it that hard to do? The circuit has 50 components.

[dineshvyas]

Total waste of time. A to Z, you didn't explain a thing just playing around prepared pcb. Anyone can do it. Start from a blank file. Zero schematic, zero component, zero footprint.