Hello Jonathan > My first reason for writing the tutorial is to scratch my own itch.
This is the same reason i wrote the stuff (AdditionalKiCAD-Docu_06Aug2010.zip) you find at the attachment. :-) The first i needed working with KiCAD was an EN60617 library. So i had to make them. And so i had to work with the library editor. Because the lack of documentation, i collected my notices...and so on. > An earlier comment confirmed my suspicion, that such a tutorial is needed. Of course, yes. But be aware, that your work often will get obsolete, because of the fast progress in developing. > With regard to copyright, do you have any opinion? So far i can see, it seems right.....in matters of paedagocical issues i cannot say anything, because i am prone to think a little bit like a freak. > That first, incomplete draft doesn't have a copyright notice, so the default > legal rules apply. > The next version should have some kind of a copyright notice. Given the > screen shots and closeness > to the application, I need to learn about how the existing KiCad > documentation handles the issue. I put my writings either under GNU GPL or creative commons. > So, in a nutshell, I'm working on it. Good luck. And best regards: Bernd Wiebus alias dl1eic