Creating Circuit Boards with KiCad 6

This video covers topics that I found useful for quickly getting started with KiCad 6, and hopefully, it may be useful for newcomers to it. The content assumes no prior knowledge of any version of KiCad. Some of the content might not cover best-practice or the most efficient procedures in KiCad, but should be sufficient to get going. You may find the chapter links useful to refer to things. For more information, see the following blog: and also type KiCad 6 in the search bar on Element14, for blogs written by others too. Also, see the KiCad forum at 00:00 - Start 00:27 - KiCad Control Panel 00:59 - Schematic Editor 01:12 - Preferences Configuration for Schematics 01:59 - Schematic Editor Shortcut Keys 02:27 - Schematic Editor Basic Usage 07:22 - Component Symbol Editor 08:29 - Component Symbol Editor 15:33 - Component Footprint Editor 22:03 - S
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