Based on some previous cheatsheets (Thanks @Foalyy), I’ve updated this to version 8. If you’d like to see more/different elements here, let me know.
kicad-cheatsheet-landscape-v8.pdf (474.0 KB)
Based on some previous cheatsheets (Thanks @Foalyy), I’ve updated this to version 8. If you’d like to see more/different elements here, let me know.
kicad-cheatsheet-landscape-v8.pdf (474.0 KB)
I’m not KiCad intensive user (last PCB I designed more than 6 months ago using V7).
Few minutes after I have written it I got a phone that I have to design new PCB and I promised that I will finish it by Tuesday . It is a new version of old PCB, but it is older than me using KiCad (2017) that I have it in Protel.
I have one suggestion and serie of facts of how I use KiCad that is up to you to draw conclusions regarding cheatsheet.
Suggestion:
Add a section (may be at beginning) with common functions.
I got that idea because I don’t remember I have ever used ‘Expand selection’ or ‘Deselect Items’ at schematic, but I used them at PCB.
At schematic I move single elements or whole blocks, but my blocks are ‘rectangle selectable’.
At PCB if it happens that I have to move a block that is surrounded by other elements it is never rectangle so I spend some time finalizing my selection with these functions.
Facts.
At schematic:
Symbol Editing:
Footprint Editor:
PCB Editor:
I’ve got the new suggestion.
I think that KiCad became to be enough complicated tool that may be cheatsheet should contain more info.
What about 2 pages cheatsheet with one page dedicated to schematic and second to PCB. In such case there should be no section with common functions, but these information can be doubled.
Maybe it would be better to have the cheatsheet just be a hotkey cheatsheet, i.e. not also try to show workflow. The workflow I think you can get from the Getting Started guide, and trying to boil it down to steps on a cheatsheet seems maybe not that useful?
If this is adopted for the cheat sheet; please include a link to “Getting Started …” , or preferably, to “Docs” for “Getting Started…” and more comprehensive explanations.
Sure. But in common usage, the point of a cheatsheet is not “introduction to the thing for beginners”, it is “memory aid for users who are already somewhat familiar with the tool but don’t have all the hotkeys or actions memorized yet”
All I wanted was a sentence at the bottom of the cheat sheet to help with exposure to Kicad Docs for newbees.
So many are introduced via youtube or other means, and don’t know/haven’t looked for documentation.
Maybe add obscure key functions?
eg: hold “Ctrl” disables grid. “Space bar” resets dx / dy