KiCad and Cloud: is it possible to work with?

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Just to know, is it possible to work in Cloud with KiCAD? So I can share my projects with other collaborators?

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Maybe put some cottonwool wadding around your monitor. :slight_smile:

For the rest you can work with git, but there is no misty stuff integrated in KiCad itself.

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If you want to start paying a subscription fee to KiCad because servers aren’t free, we can consider it eventually lolol

Otherwise, just use git, shared network drives or literally anything else companies have used for 3 decades.

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Git? I have not on KiCAD you mean gitHub or GitLab?

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Git itself is a sourcecode revision system, and it works reasonably well with KiCad because all of KiCad’s project files are text based. Github and Gitlab are just websites that deliver a service based around git (and a forum like thing for developers to communicate with each other). Such sites can be a useful addition, but they are not strictly necessary to work with Git. Git has several built in protocols (http, SSH, and more) to transfer and synchronize data between different copies of a git repository. It is a quite powerful system, but with this power also comes complexity and you will need a bit of studying to use it effectively.

Git itself is also a CLI thing, but there are GUI shells for git in which you can do the most common things with a few mouse clicks.

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Ok … just the normal Git … I thought there was some dedicated stuff for KiCAD

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What do you mean by dedicated stuff?

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Just a dedicated Tool OR way

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V8 has some git integration but it’s behind advanced config flag and doesn’t work well yet.

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ok that’s why it doesn’t appear to me neither. but ok let’s wait and see.
meanwhile: thank you to all of you guys.

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I installed TortoiseGIT and at the moment in time linked with GitHub.
However i will try to use it for shared projects on shared drive/cloud stuff.
At the end I wouldn’t have 2 zillions of projects. Max 1 or 2 to share with some collaborator.
When the feature on KiCAD will be ready, I will use the internal one.

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