Jon Evans

@craftyjon.com

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software @kicad.org, hardware @formlabs Sadly not a sci-fi author Also at @craftyjon@chaos.social he/him

A screenshot of the KiCad PCB editor in a recent nightly build, showing a creepage violation in the DRC dialog as well as the actual creepage path that was calculated.
A screencast of a KiCad PCB Editor nightly build, showing dragging multiple tracks at once in the push and shove router
A screencast showing a nightly build of the KiCad PCB editor. A copper polygon shape is visible, and the screencast shows the process of selecting it, right-clicking several corners, and using the new Chamfer feature to chamfer the corners.
A screenshot of the schematic editor in a KiCad nightly build, showing a rule area assigning the netclass RAM_ADDR to a set of 8 net wires
Screenshot of a KiCad nightly build showing the symbol editor and schematic editor windows, with the properties panel attached to the left of the graphical editing canvases and the new selection filter appearing below the properties panel
A screenshot of the Zone Manager dialog in KiCad nightly, showing a copper zone's properties, a graphical preview of the zone fill, and a re-orderable list of zone priorities
Screenshot of KiCad showing a copper track with soldermask removed, in the 2D and 3D views
Screenshot of KiCad 3D viewer, showing several through-hole pads with different shapes on 4 different copper layers
A screencast shows a demonstration of using the multichannel layout feature in a nightly version of KiCad