[kicad-users] NEWBIE question

2009-02-02 Thread NJ
I'm following the tutorial and when instructed to create a new projest the .sch file never gets created. Help!

Re: [kicad-users] NEWBIE question

2009-02-02 Thread kajdas
Did you save the project/schematic? NJ wb8...@arrl.net wrote: I'm following the tutorial and when instructed to create a new projest the .sch file never gets created. Help!

Re: [kicad-users] NEWBIE question

2009-02-02 Thread Alain M.
Explaining more... the project is the .pro file, then you create the schematic, it's the .sch file, when you save it you get the file :) Alain kajdas escreveu: Did you save the project/schematic? NJ wb8...@arrl.net wrote: I'm following the tutorial and when instructed to create a new

[kicad-users] Re: Libraries

2009-02-02 Thread Dan
No, it's a case of US and rest-of-the-world. As an American, I don't give a rat's ass what some standards committee says (especially if they're in another country), I prefer the zigzag resistors and other US-preferred symbols, and apparently most other Americans do too, as these symbols are still

[kicad-users] Re: Libraries

2009-02-02 Thread Doug
Thanks Dan. Would you care to share that library? I mainly dislike the resistors and caps (no curved plate). Doug --- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, Dan dan...@... wrote: No, it's a case of US and rest-of-the-world. As an American, I don't give a rat's ass what some standards committee says

Re: [kicad-users] NEWBIE question

2009-02-02 Thread Dave - WB6DHW
NJ wrote: I'm following the tutorial and when instructed to create a new projest the .sch file never gets created. Help! You need to open Eeschema and then save the file. Dave - WB6DHW wb6dhw.com

[kicad-users] Re: Libraries

2009-02-02 Thread v_koeppel
Maybe you can find what you want here : http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-users/message/4373 Look at the diy_rlc.lib in the libraries zip file. You can see what some of the the symbols look like there : http://vkoeppel.free.fr/files/diy/libs.svg --- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, Doug

[kicad-users] Re: IGES and STEP models

2009-02-02 Thread nonuckingfumber
--- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, Karl Schmidt k...@... wrote: It would be really nice if you wrote this up as a script or something or at least put up a step-by-step in the wiki.. keep us posted.. I have got frustratingly close, it is clear to me that it should be possible to reduce

Sv: [kicad-users] Libraries

2009-02-02 Thread Anders Gustafsson
New to Kicad but had used Orcad for many years. Is there a more US like device library that uses resistor, ground, etc. symbols? Yhe square box resistors just don't look right! Yes they do ;) But if there are, you find them here: http://www.kicadlib.org/ - Anders Gustafsson Engineer, CNE6,

[kicad-users] Re: Libraries

2009-02-02 Thread nonuckingfumber
--- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, Doug dsc3...@... wrote: New to Kicad but had used Orcad for many years. Is there a more US like device library that uses resistor, ground, etc. symbols? Yhe square box resistors just don't look right! Doug I don't think it is so much a case of US and the