Kicad. What are the best tutorials you've found?

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Subject line says it all. I was part way through a learning Eagle book when I heard the news that Autocad bought Eagle. So, I figure it's only a matter of time until it becomes even more expensive and user unfriendly. Time to bail before I invest any more time.

I've loaded up Kicad and so far so good. Now I need to create some new parts and get my basics on a solid foundation. I'm of course Google-ling my way forward but I'm old school, I'd much rather read than sit through a video (not a fan).

Please feel free to share good reference material you've found.

FWIW, I'm starting from a zero knowledge base on EDA packages so I figure I don't have to unlearn anything.

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I do not know the best tutorial. I started with KiCad from scratch with 0 knowledge about tools like this and what caused me the most headaches were editting, loading and configuring components and footprints. I got it working by trial and error but it bit me in the **** when my laptop crashed and I lost all configurations because I did not put edited components and footprints in the same dir as the project. So had to do it all over again :frowning:

So for what it is worth, my tip would be to look for tutorials about this topic :slight_smile: