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The suite runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS and is licensed under GNU GPL v3. The first release date was in 1992 by its original author, Jean-Pierre Charras, but is now currently under development by the KiCad Developers Team.
Schematic Capture
With the schematic editor, you can create your design without limit; there are no paywalls to unlock features. An official library for schematic symbols and a built-in schematic symbol editor help you get started quickly with your designs. Schematic capture is efficient, with all the tools you can expect for such a task.
The interface focuses on productivity. There are no complexity limits, as large designs can be divided into hierarchical subsheets. Various export options are available (PDF, SVG, HPGL, Postscript).
PCB Layout
Make professional PCB layouts with up to 32 copper layers. KiCad for macOS now has a push and shove router which is capable of routing differential pairs and interactively tuning trace lengths.
This modern tool will help you layout your board faster. As you draw your track, it pushes forward traces that are in the way. If that is not possible, your track will be rerouted around obstacles. The push and shove router will make sure that your DRC constraints are respected.
3D Viewer
Ki Cad for macOS includes a 3D viewer that you can use to inspect your design in an interactive canvas. You can rotate and pan around to inspect details that are difficult to inspect on a 2D view.
Multiple rendering options allow you to modify the aesthetic appearance of the board or to hide and show features for easier inspection. When laying out your PCB, you can instantly inspect your design in an interactive 3D view. Rotate and pan around to inspect details easier than with a 2D display.
Features and Highlights
- Electrical Rules Check
- Export Netlists
- Bill Of Materials
- Integrated libraries
- Push and shove router
- Length tuning
- Footprint Editor (GAL)
- Install by dragging KiCad to Applications folder
- Launch the app and choose a project workspace
- Create a new schematic with Eeschema
- Place components using the library browser
- Connect components with wires in the schematic
- Annotate components and assign footprints
- Switch to PCB editor to layout the board
- Route traces manually or use autorouter
- Run DRC to check for design rule violations
- Generate Gerber files for manufacturing
- Export BOM and other documentation
macOS 10.14 or later
64-bit Intel or Apple Silicon (ARM64)
4 GB RAM minimum (8 GB recommended)
1 GB free disk space
OpenGL-compatible GPU for 3D viewer
PROS
- Free and open-source EDA tool
- Cross-platform and regularly updated
- Powerful schematic and PCB editor
- Large library and community support
- Supports 3D rendering of PCB designs
- Occasional bugs in new releases
- UI less polished than commercial tools
- Limited autorouting capabilities
- Some libraries may need manual setup
What's new in this version:
General:
- Implement Altium project importer
- Show [read-only in the title bar based on the project’s state].
- Don’t bypass empty visibility recovery due to migration.
- Protect against concurrent wxPlatformInfo access at startup
- Unset PCM button to avoid crash on close.
- Prevent single-line Scintilla text edit control scrolling bug
- Prevent crash when zooming to preset in footprint chooser
Schematic Editor:
- Support URLs in symbol chooser information panel
- Set single units symbols correctly when importing Altium schematics
- Show nets in net navigator panel after enabling for first time
- Fix broken select connection (Ctrl-4) behavior
- Test for hierarchical labels in root sheet when running ERC
- Update search dialog
- Allow multiple label input for bulk assignment of net labels
- Add ability to quickly move through nets in net navigator
- Fix hidden fields remain visible after search and cannot be hidden again
- Make directive label text color behave like other labels.
- Prevent table and rule areas from being swapped in schematic file after save
- Fix crash opening schematic with missing library symbol
- Fix crash running "Increment Annotations From…?" tool
- Add automatic completion for operating point ":power"20984
- Fix crash when defining nonsensical operating point labels
- Print correct units in power operating point
- Fix text disappearing in value field properties dialog
- Prevent assertion when deleting field row from schematic sheet properties dialog
- Add field options for "Update PCB from Schematic"
- Read Altium’s "showName" property for fields
- Improve Altium import performance.
- Treat stacked pins as a single item in 4-way connection test
- Honor escape key policy for sheet pin synchronization dialog.
- Unable to load schematic created with previous KiCad version containing | character in string
- Fix crash when trying to edit a non symbol field using U,V or F hot key
- Fix Eagle import schematic description for page names regression
- Fix overly aggressive label auto-completion capitalization
- Fix broken symbol chooser filtering for more than one filter expression
- Make sure initial focus of label properties dialog is the text input.
- Make enter key close label properties dialog instead of opening the drop down list
Spice Simulator:
- Prevent crash on failure to load ngspice’s DLL
- Fix reversed resistor simulation pins
- Fix crash when back spacing in simulator user-defined signal name
- Correctly netlist AM/SFFM current sources
Symbol Editor:
- Fix incorrect size of the pin properties dialog when an information bar is shown
Board Editor:
- Fix errors in intersecting zones test
- Restore groups after undoing global deletion
- Save padstack shape and layer changes to pad in footprint editor
- Do not ignore differential pair gap min/max DRC rules
- Correctly honor minimum width project settings and DRC
- Do not trigger footprint does not match library errors when footprint has rule area on inner layers
- Fix footprint does not match copy in library issue
- Correctly show hole to hole clearance highlight when dragging vias
- Properly handle arc coupled items
- Prevent overriding existing track width
- Fix DRC freeze on creepage test
- Fix tuning pattern generators not being arrayed properly
- Re-implement wildcard matches for netclass constituents in DRC evaluation
- Fix false DRC error regarding clearance violation between zone and bezier curve,
- Re-implement wildcard matches for netclass constituents in DRC evaluation
- Don’t bypass empty visibility recovery due to migration.
- Fix router issue Length where tuning path not is always computed through vias
- Fix router via placing issue
- DRC net class and component class match improvements.
- Fix incorrect text box properties dialog bitmap button sizes
- Fix crash when loading footprints with bezier curves.
- Pad set to "all copper layers" not present on all copper layers when editing pad properties
- Fix crash when changing the clearance of multiple zones to 0
- Fix small segment rendering
- Restore ability for moves to be asynchronous
- Fix crash when placing footprints when grid list is empty
- Fix position of rectangles after a rotate command.
- Flip Y axis when exporting to Hyperlynx file
- Ensure any mapped layers are enabled when importing from Eagle
- Allow parsing empty footprint fields when parsing net list
- Prevent router from automatically deleting trace segments
- Allow measurement tool to be dismissed under certain conditions
- Prevent differential router from changing trace width of routed segments once partial segments are connected
- Fix EasyEDA issue when importing board with consecutive arc parameter sets
Footprint Editor:
- Add prettifier support when exporting a footprint
- Correctly open footprint datasheet URLs from menu and toolbar
3D Viewer:
- Do not allow changing to anything in the board shared by the footprint editor
- Fix broken visibility settings when opening from footprint editor
Command Line Interface:
- Fix kicad-cli pcb export pdf --mode-multipage command
Job Sets:
- Do not output undesired debug/progress information into console when running PCB 3D model job in GUI
- Set an environment variable when running jobs that points to the temp folder for the jobset output
- Allow running jobsets in cli by description and uuid
API:
- Use action wrapper for setting grid originkicad-python
- Add symbol path for footprint instances
- Add FlashLayer() equivalent for pads,
- Use net names, not codes, and allow creating new nets
- Prevent creating invalid arcs
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