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This topic is an index to answers for frequently asked questions about KiCad. General tutorials Where is the official documentation? Tutorial: Introduction to PCB design with KiCad version 5.1 (Getting Started) Is the…

4 10363 May 10, 2019
About the FAQ category
1 615 November 21, 2017
Castellated edge; plated half holes in board edge
1 290 July 22, 2020
Converting KiCad version 4 projects to version 5 (Remap a project)
tutorial
1 4985 November 21, 2018
How does solder mask layer work?
1 3023 September 4, 2019
I come from Eagle. What should i know about KiCad?
eagle
1 540 April 24, 2020
How to connect a wire to the PCB?
1 2840 July 29, 2019
What are the cache and rescue libs and how does the schematic rescue dialog work? (KiCad version 5.x and earlier)
1 627 February 8, 2020
What is the difference between step and wrl 3d models?
1 1789 June 2, 2019
Off-Board Components in KiCad 5
tutorial
1 403 April 14, 2020
Creating a new symbol library and a new symbol in KiCad 5
tutorial
1 5482 October 29, 2018
How to get a downloaded symbol, footprint or full library into KiCad version 5?
tutorial
1 3377 October 21, 2019
How to create a bill of materials (BOM)?
tutorial
1 28275 September 1, 2018
Tutorial: Introduction to PCB design with KiCad version 5.1 (Getting Started)
tutorial
7 4281 January 26, 2020
Project and libary setup for sharing and collaboration
4 1156 March 28, 2020
Library management in KiCad version 5
1 33286 January 11, 2019
How to create a power plane (using zones)
2 2981 October 11, 2019
Update PCB from Schematic's match methods
1 523 March 9, 2020
Electrical type of schematic symbol pins
1 9583 January 27, 2018
Tutorial: How to check footprint correctness?
tutorial
2 3562 February 22, 2020
Hierarchical or flat schematic design, what is best for me? (How to deal with multi page schematics?)
1 4525 April 20, 2019
What is the meaning of the layers in pcb_new and in the footprint editor?
1 17248 February 20, 2018
Creating a new footprint library
tutorial
3 11474 January 12, 2020
RF Designing Tips
1 598 January 6, 2020
Tutorial: How to make a footprint (From scratch)?
tutorial
5 22211 January 11, 2019
How can I help improve KiCad?
1 1087 February 14, 2019
FAQ renaming a project
6 1421 December 8, 2019
How does KiCad know which symbol pin represents which pad of the footprint?
1 4874 August 3, 2018
I had KiCad 4 installed previosly. Now i updated to v5. Now i have some problems with the library setup
1 10988 August 6, 2018
Can I export or convert a KiCad project to another EDA format (Altium, Mentor, Zuken, OrCAD etc.)?
1 588 October 30, 2019