Thanks the awesome tip & video. I wish I had this a year ago when I had to replicate a somewhat complex portion of a board, by hand, 32 times. Layout can be fun, but that was not. In my experience, that’s most difficult when the space is very constrained, but this plug-in doesn’t care. Cool. I wonder if it can replicate vias too? Probably not, but I guess I’ll have to try it and see. ;) Either way, this will be is a big help. Hats off to the plug-in developer. Cheers.
Hmmm i could not say...can you print screen the error and post here a link to the picture...i didn't have any problems of this nature...but im using the latest stable version which i guess is 5.1.6
Can you SHOW me how to start off with the ground plane first, on the pcb? ALL on one side of the pcb! No one can make a video and show me how to do this. Is it that hard to do? The circuit has 50 components.
You can add the ground shape either before or after the rest of the components and some traces. To do it first: In a new layout (PCB) design, in KiCad 6: First create the board outline on the edge cuts layer. Then you can create the ground plane shape as a 'filled zone' on whatever layer you want, e.g. bottom copper. It will ask for the net name, but the list will be empty until you Update PCB from Schematic. If you continue here you'll have no net on the plane. That's fine. Once you have a decent schematic, go ahead and Update PCB from Schematic, then you'll get components to place and the net names will be brought into the layout. Then you can set the net name (GND) on the fill shape properties.
@@YO3HEX I used the Replicate Layout plug-in in KiCad 6.0 just now, so it's been updated. I used the PlugIn and Content Manager from the main KiCad window to bring it in, rather than the method you showed of pulling the plugin from Git.
I'm designing a fairly complex stereo amplifier. This will come in VERY handy!
This is awesome for 10 band EQ!
Way cool. This is going to save huge amounts of time on my current project. Great tutorial! 👍🏻
Thanks a lot!! In KiCad7 (and maybe KiCad6) this plugin is directly available to install in the "Plugin and Content Manager".
Designing an LED board. Super stuff for saving time!
Thank you very much for this simple and helpful tutorial.
Thank you for this video. Just used it and it works great.
Good tutorial. This works in KiCad 6 now, as well.
Yes, the plugin was ported to KiCAD6 and works quite nice.
Thank you for the tour! It does a great job! :)
Amazing!!! Thanks a lot!!!
Awesome tutorial thank you!
Hi, does anyone know how to use this plugin with KiCad 7.0?
Or maybe there is another solution?
Thx
Very useful! Thank you so much!
Thanks the awesome tip & video. I wish I had this a year ago when I had to replicate a somewhat complex portion of a board, by hand, 32 times. Layout can be fun, but that was not. In my experience, that’s most difficult when the space is very constrained, but this plug-in doesn’t care. Cool. I wonder if it can replicate vias too? Probably not, but I guess I’ll have to try it and see. ;) Either way, this will be is a big help. Hats off to the plug-in developer. Cheers.
But it does replicate vias :) i've already used it. It replicates all the elements of the PCB ... so ... that is not a problem.
Cool plugin!
great post man! thx!
Right what I needed,but it's broken for nightlies, the functionality of which I also need.
Yes, only for stable. Same in my case
this is not where to install the plugins, one needs to click on open plugin directory it check it first
Wicked ! Nice !
usefull! thanks
Helal mıgooooo.
the plugin icon does not appear
Any recommendations on the Top N plugins that every kicad user should install?
I tried a simple circuit following your description. Unfortunately I got an error message u'5EE0313F' . Any ideas? I'm using 5.1.4. thanks.
Hmmm i could not say...can you print screen the error and post here a link to the picture...i didn't have any problems of this nature...but im using the latest stable version which i guess is 5.1.6
It's not working for me.
Where does the base of the transistor go to? The ground plane?
That was just a sample PCB/Schematic - no real use
@@YO3HEX ok
Can you SHOW me how to start off with the ground plane first, on the pcb? ALL on one side of the pcb! No one can make a video and show me how to do this. Is it that hard to do? The circuit has 50 components.
You can add the ground shape either before or after the rest of the components and some traces. To do it first:
In a new layout (PCB) design, in KiCad 6: First create the board outline on the edge cuts layer. Then you can create the ground plane shape as a 'filled zone' on whatever layer you want, e.g. bottom copper. It will ask for the net name, but the list will be empty until you Update PCB from Schematic. If you continue here you'll have no net on the plane. That's fine. Once you have a decent schematic, go ahead and Update PCB from Schematic, then you'll get components to place and the net names will be brought into the layout. Then you can set the net name (GND) on the fill shape properties.
@@scottinphase Awesome! Thank-you.
I am getting an error. Using KiCAD 6.
Not compatible with Kicad 6 as far as i know - not yet
@@YO3HEX I used the Replicate Layout plug-in in KiCad 6.0 just now, so it's been updated. I used the PlugIn and Content Manager from the main KiCad window to bring it in, rather than the method you showed of pulling the plugin from Git.
@@scottinphase yes, but that is now 😁 my comment was from more than 3 months ago when it wasnt available.
@@YO3HEX Yep, thought I'd note the update for others that just might come across your video and comments. Cheers.
Thanks for this video!!
thanks for making this.