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There is a full [http://www.kicad-pcb.org/display/KICAD/Tutorials Getting Started guide] on the KiCad website, as well as various tutorials on [https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kicad+tutorials youtube] to help you get started. The [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy2022BX6Esr6yxwDzhqYZyuuenJE2s5B Getting to Blinky] series (from a course run by Contextual Electronics) is quite comprehensive and demonstrates a typcial workflow going from schematic capture to gerber generation | There is a full [http://www.kicad-pcb.org/display/KICAD/Tutorials Getting Started guide] on the KiCad website, as well as various tutorials on [https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kicad+tutorials youtube] to help you get started. The [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy2022BX6Esr6yxwDzhqYZyuuenJE2s5B Getting to Blinky] series (from a course run by Contextual Electronics) is quite comprehensive and demonstrates a typcial workflow going from schematic capture to gerber generation | ||
OS X support is limited and experimental. Compiling recent versions may require modest skill; it will often require building the binaries yourself. Instructions are available [https://launchpad.net/kicad] and there is a script within the source tree [https://github.com/KiCad/KicadOSXBuilder] however even then there may be significant bugs - particularly in viewport rendering - making running on a virtualised operating system a potentially more attractive option for using KiCad on OS X. | |||
=== DesignSpark PCB === | === DesignSpark PCB === | ||
