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Stating that KiCAD is NOT required for part libraries fix: devbisme#149; Removing broken links to sold kicad page
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s39674 authored Jun 10, 2022
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The resulting Python program performs electrical rules checking
for common mistakes and outputs a netlist that serves as input to
a PCB layout tool.</p>
<p>First, let's look at a "normal" design flow in <a href="https://kicad-pcb.org">KiCad</a>:</p>
<p>First, let's look at a "normal" design flow in <a href="https://kicad.org">KiCad</a>:</p>
<p><img alt="Schematic-based PCB design flow" src="images/schematic-process-flow.png"></p>
<p>Here, you start off in a <em>schematic editor</em> (for KiCad, that's EESCHEMA) and
draw a schematic. From that, EESCHEMA generates
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<div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><code>$ pip install skidl
</code></pre></div>

<p>To give SKiDL some part libraries to work with,
you'll also need to install <a href="http://kicad-pcb.org/">KiCad</a>.
<p>Please note, SKiDL does need part libraries to work with.
You can either download those libraries alone from: https://gitlab.com/kicad/libraries/kicad-symbols OR you can install <a href="http://kicad.org/">KiCad</a>
and those libraries will be shipped with it.</p>
Then, you'll need to set an environment variable so SKiDL can find the libraries.
For Windows, do this:</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><code>set KICAD_SYMBOL_DIR=C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\kicad-symbols
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</div><!-- /#container -->
<div style="display:none"></div>
</body>
</html>
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