I worked in a small aerospace company that made miniature flight computers but never got to use the CAD software.
Now I’m retired and learning Kicad is proving an exciting journey.
I started with trying to finish an old project of mine from many years ago that never quite got there. Kicad enabled me to make the jump from the old way - (making a transparency of the copper traces and contact-printing that onto a photosensitive resist, then developing it, etching the copper and washing) - to the new process, where I converted my copper image to a Gerber file, imported the file to PCB editor and began learning how to work in Kicad.
I cleaned up the raggy images and placed vias and drew an outline and submitted it to a Chinese PCB manufacturer!
Next, I’m now working on converting one of the PCB images from a UAV I helped build.
I have learned how to find and add 3rd party footprints to Kicad, add a 3D image, position, edit some of them and modify the traces.
Currently want to learn how to modify a 3D model of a jumper wire to change its length. The footprint was easy to modify but the 3D model… err.