CEP014 – Moving to KiCad V6 with Jon Evans from The Contextual Electronics Podcast

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CEP014 – Moving to KiCad V6 with Jon Evans

1 hour 3 minutes Posted Jul 13, 2021 at 3:00 pm.

Introduction

Making changes to the platform

History of the codebase – Chat with the KiCad team about V6 and beyond

Jon’s work background – Jon works for Formlabs

What is coming in KiCad v6?

Working with legacy code in KiCad

Looking at an example project

Schematic editor

Changes to the schematic UI

Layout tool

Changes to the layout UI

The split of beginner vs advanced users

The benefits of an open source tool

Comparison to tools that are cloud based

The KiCad ecosystem

KiCad Professional Services

KiCon 2021

What is DRC? How is it changing?

The challenges of live DRC

Example of DRC

New python API

Example project for using python scripting with KiCad

How the KiCad project works with feature requests

Working with the console inside KiCad

What else is Jon excited about in V6?

KiCad as a professional tool?

Following Jon online

Conclusion

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Welcome, Jon Evans of the KiCad project!

Jon Evans is a longtime developer on the KiCad project and practicing EE at Formlabs. He joins Chris to talk about the future of KiCad, including features that are coming in V6.

Show Notes

4:00 History of the codebase – Chat with the KiCad team about V6 and beyond

5:05 Jon’s work background – Jon works for Formlabs