Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Renaming a KiCad project

I keep my projects in svn, and kicad made it more challenging than I expected to rename a project. The orignal project was igbt-tx, and my new project is tx-3x1. First, you rename the top level project:
for f in igbt-tx*; do svn mv "$f" "$(echo $f | sed 's/^igbt-tx/tx-3x1/g')"; done
You then need update the libraries:
find ./ -type f -exec sed -i 's/igbt-tx/tx-3x1/g' {} \;
If you want to do this without svn, you need to just remove the "svn".

Friday, August 14, 2020

kicad eeschema parts off grid

One of the challenges of collaboration is configuration. I found today that if you "right-click", you can change the schematic grid. I was having trouble with my grid being 1.5 times of the collaborator.