my_kicad

This is a repo to contain some simple attempts to use Kicad 6 to design printed circuit boards.

File organization and version control

I like to make it so that design files are usable by just cloning them from GitHub but that is not completely possible with KiCad because libraries are external to the design folders and KiCad relies on user level pathname to access libraries.

Here are how I have my paths setup.

The official KiCad libraries are cloned from these url:

https://gitlab.com/kicad/libraries/kicad-symbols
https://gitlab.com/kicad/libraries/kicad-footprints
https://gitlab.com/kicad/libraries/kicad-packages3d