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[Fabrizio Tappero <fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Simon,
Interesting email. Please do not assume that many people will have your
problem only because you have a problem.
Have you looked a the txt tutorial in help menu? Have you looked at the
video tutorials in the official kicad website?
Let us know how you go, personally, i am a little interested?
Also, let us know how you would expect kicad to help you.
Good luck mate
Fabrizio
On 07/02/2014 8:13 PM, "Simon Turner" <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>  Hello All
>
> Hope I'm not upsetting the apple cart but thought I give a view on how a
> dumb user see's the latest releases.
>
> Thanks to all of your help I'm not able to regularly build the latest
> cutting edge releases. I have noted a few things with this version.
>
> Firstly trying to create a project is impossible, kicad just crashes
> either on creating or opening, I have to create it with the old "stable"
> release.
>
> Secondly in eeschema I used to be able to place parts by just typing the
> parts name like "r" for a resistor, now this produces a results box with
> the whole library in it so i have to go and find it manually, I used to
> just click on the place part icon, click on the page, type "r" and hit
> enter and bingo, same applies for "c" ect and capapol brings up a search
> result with just one result so why not place it anyway.
>
> Thirdly, I can't progress beyond the schematic capture! I have no idea how
> the new pcb libraries work and can't even assign pcb footprints to the
> schematic, I have tried reading the manual but being a "dumb user" it makes
> no sense at all and seems to explain principles rather than what to do
> about it. I search for the file that should hold the path to the libraries
> brings up so many files I have no idea which one to use. I realize this is
> a pre-release version but if it goes out like this many won't be able to
> use it.... I cannot work out how to point the program at the libraries
> location.
>
> I hope that is of some help to you in understanding how the current
> release looks from a users point of view.
>
> Kind regards
> Simon
>
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