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OK, it's official on the website now: KiCad 9 is out! www.kicad.org/blog/2025/02...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I've been building a new API for #KiCad for the past year, and we're getting ready to release the first version of it with V9 at the end of the month!

submitted 40 days ago • 3 comments

I've just announced my new (blazing-fast) kernel for implicit surfaces: mattkeeter.com/projects/fid... It's got something for everyone: Cool graphs! Multithreaded WebAssembly! Terrible mesh topology! JIT compilers! After three years, I'm excited to finally show it off to a wider audience 😎

submitted 49 days ago • 8 comments

The KiCad project is excited to announce the first release candidate for the next major version is available for testing. Version 9.0.0 is expected to be released by 01/31/25. New features can be found here forum.kicad.info/t/post-v8-ne... Packages are available www.kicad.org/download/

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

The first release candidate for #kicad 9 is available! More info over on the forum: forum.kicad.info/t/stable-ver...

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

What KiCad features are the most mysterious to you?

submitted 74 days ago • 4 comments

KiCad 9 will visualize some DRC errors in a more clear way. Shown here is a new creepage test, which particularly benefits from this. Thanks to Fabien Corona for these two additions.

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

Multi-track drifting, er, dragging coming to KiCad 9! Video and code courtesy of Tom W :)

submitted 84 days ago • 11 comments

Giving Tuesday – KiCad open-source design #GivingTuesday 💻🔧🌍❤️🤝 #electronics

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

KiCad 9 will also come with a ton of smaller tweaks and quality-of-life improvements, like this Chamfer feature added by John Beard:

submitted 86 days ago • 2 comments

A new feature coming to the schematic editor in KiCad 9: rule areas, contributed by James Jackson. These allow you to do things like assign net classes to a number of nets at once (even if the nets are not themselves named)

submitted 87 days ago • 4 comments

KiCad 9 also will bring the selection filter to the schematic and symbol editors. This adds another workflow to edit multiple things in bulk (for example: set the filter to Pins, hit Ctrl+A to select all pins, and edit their properties in the Properties Panel)

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Another nice feature coming to #KiCad 9: The Zone Manager, contributed by Ethan Chien. This dialog lets you quickly check and re-arrange the fill order (priority) of all the copper zones in a board, and includes a graphical preview so you can more easily tell what zone you have selected.

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

KiCad 9 also adds the ability to mark a track on an outer layer as having no soldermask. You could do this before by copying the shapes to the mask layer, but this is much faster. Thanks to Andrzej Wolski for contributing this feature.

submitted 93 days ago • 3 comments

Another thing coming to KiCad 9 is custom padstacks. While you've been able to completely remove unconnected pads from a layer in recent versions, sometimes the situation calls for different shapes or sizes within the same pad. I'm looking forward to having this flexibility.

submitted 95 days ago • 2 comments

#KiCad 9 will have a native multichannel feature! (video by Tom W)

submitted 98 days ago • 2 comments

Hey Folks! We're getting close to tagging 8.0.7 for release. You can help test for bugs by using an 8.0 testing release and reporting any issues. As a bonus, you get all the older bugs fixed. downloads.kicad.org/kicad/window... downloads.kicad.org/kicad/macos/... launchpad.net/~kicad/+arch...

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

If you are into product engineering, this is a great video. Going over many small design decisions and problems and how stuff gets manufactured. Also perfect example why design files by themselves do not enable product clones. They could fully open source this and still no one could just clone it.

submitted 105 days ago • 2 comments

Booked my trip to #FOSDEM 2025! Always enjoy getting to hang out with other KiCad developers and users in-person :)

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments