KiCad/C2/Mapping-components-in-KiCad/English-timed
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| Time | Narration |
| 00:01 | Dear Friends, Welcome to the spoken tutorial on Mapping components with footprints in KiCad. |
| 00:07 | In this spoken tutorial, we will learn |
| 00:10 | to map components with corresponding footprints. |
| 00:13 | Basic knowledge of electronic circuit is pre-requisite for this tutorial. |
| 00:18 | User should know how to design circuit schematic in KiCad |
| 00:23 | and do electric rule check and netlist generation. |
| 00:26 | For relevant tutorials, please visit: spoken hyphen tutorial.org. |
| 00:33 | We are using Ubuntu 12.04 as an operating system |
| 00:37 | with KiCad 2011 hyphen 05 hyphen 25 for this tutorial. |
| 00:47 | To start KiCad- |
| 00:49 | Go to the top left corner of Ubuntu desktop screen. |
| 00:52 | Click on the first icon i.e. the Dash home. |
| 00:56 | In the search bar, type 'KiCad' and press Enter. |
| 01:04 | This will open KiCad main window. |
| 01:07 | To open 'EEschema', go to the top panel. Click on EEschema tab. |
| 01:17 | An Info dialog-box will appear which says that it cannot find the schematic. |
| 01:21 | Click on OK. |
| 01:24 | I will use the circuit schematic of Astable multivibrator which was created earlier. |
| 01:30 | To do this- I will go to the File menu, click on Open. |
| 01:37 | I will bring this window in the visible area. |
| 01:44 | Choose the folder in which the file is saved |
| 01:50 | and click on Open. |
| 01:55 | This will open the circuit schematic. |
| 01:57 | I will zoom in using the scroll button of the mouse. |
| 02:02 | We have already generated the netlist for this circuit. |
| 02:07 | Let us now look at the process of mapping the components used in the schematic with footprints. |
| 02:14 | Footprint is the actual layout of the component which is placed in the Printed Circuit Board. |
| 02:21 | To start mapping of the components- |
| 02:24 | Go to the top panel of 'EEschema' window. |
| 02:28 | Click on the Run Cvpcb button. |
| 02:33 | This will open the Cvpcb window. |
| 02:37 | It will also open a dialog-box titled Component Library Error. |
| 02:42 | Click on OK button to close it. |
| 02:47 | Notice that it opens 'project1.net' file. Please recall that we had generated this file in the Netlist generation tutorial. |
| 02:58 | The 'Cvpcb' window is divided into two panels. |
| 03:03 | The first column in the left panel is the serial number. |
| 03:07 | The second column shows reference id for list of components used in schematic. |
| 03:14 | The third column shows values of the corresponding components. |
| 03:19 | The right panel gives a list of footprints available. |
| 03:25 | Now, we will map the components with their associated footprints. |
| 03:30 | We can see list of footprints available for selected component i.e. 'C1' in the right part of 'Cvpcb' window. |
| 03:41 | We will now view footprint corresponding to the selected component. |
| 03:45 | On the top panel of 'Cvpcb' window click on View selected footprint. |
| 03:53 | This will open footprint window which displays the image of footprint selected. |
| 04:02 | We can also see images of different footprints by clicking on them. |
| 04:12 | I will close footprint window now. |
| 04:15 | For the first component 'C1', we will choose the footprint 'C1' from right panel. |
| 04:22 | To assign 'C1' footprint to first component, double-click on the footprint. |
| 04:27 | As you can see, 'C1' footprint gets assigned to the first component in the list. |
| 04:34 | Similarly, for second component 'C2', we will choose footprint 'C1' by double-clicking on it. |
| 04:43 | For the next component 'D1', we choose LED hyphen 3MM. |
| 04:50 | For connector 'P1', we choose SIL hyphen 2 from the right panel. |
| 05:02 | I will scroll down in the right panel to select it. |
| 05:09 | For 'R1', we choose 'R3'. |
| 05:13 | For 'R2', we choose 'R3'. |
| 05:17 | For 'R3', we choose 'R3'. |
| 05:22 | For 'U1' i.e. 'LM555', we choose DIP hyphen 8 underscore 300 underscore ELL which is a standard eight pin IC footprint. |
| 05:38 | Now, we will save the netlist by clicking on Save netlist and footprint files button on the top panel of 'Cvpcb' window. |
| 05:48 | This will open Save Net and Component List window. |
| 05:54 | I will resize this window for better view. |
| 06:00 | Click on Save to save this file. This will save the file and also close the 'Cvpcb' window automatically. |
| 06:13 | Now, the netlist is updated with footprints information. |
| 06:18 | Here the process of mapping the components is complete. |
| 06:21 | Go to the 'EEschema' window. Now close this window. |
| 06:29 | Also close the KiCad main window. |
| 06:35 | This brings us to the end of this tutorial. |
| 06:38 | In this tutorial, we learnt |
| 06:40 | to map the components with corresponding footprints using 'Cvpcb' window. |
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| 07:38 | This script has been contributed by Abhishek Pawar. |
| 07:41 | This is Rupak Rokade from IIT Bombay, signing off. Thanks for joining. |
