Layout and Routing with PCBNew: PCBNew allows faster and more efficient routing.

The netlist export options allow designers to save their netlists in various formats such as Pspice, Cadstar, PcbNew, XML.

Electrical and Design Rule Check: KiCad also offers a powerful ERC and DRC system which checks for errors such as output pin conflicts, missing drivers and unconnected pins.

All major export formats are supported: PDF, SVG, HPGL, Postscript. It also offers hierarchical conversion for complex designs, which simplifies multi-sheet schematics into sub sheets. The interface is neat and functional, with a focus on essential tools.

Schematic Capture with Eeschema: KiCad provides an elegant and functional schematic capture solution, with all tools available as you may require.

The highlights and key features of KiCad are discussed here. Let’s take a look at the main features of this program. KiCad integrates all the above tools to provide the user a central design environment.

Bitmap2Component: (Image to PCB footprint conversion).

Pcbnew: (PCB layout solution, with 3D capabilities).

Eeschema: (Schematic Capture and editor).

(It may actually have been a corrupt file. Then you just have to figure out what rule/setting is causing the problem. Since the new files had default settings and no design rules this will tel you if the issue is some non-default setting somewhere. 7 ) Close Altium and Reopen it 8 ) See if the problem still exists when opening the new files. (select all copy to new file) 6 ) Removed the old files from the workspace by closing that project. 2 ) Open a new blank sch file 3 ) Select all on your current SCH file and copy into the new file. But one thing i recommend trying is 1 ) save/backup your project and files. Again, Sorry that i can't remember how i solved it. Altium would just always recompile for 5 seconds after i changed anything minor, unlike all my other projects which didn't do this. Quote from: Psi on March 14, 2019, 06:19:39 am I had this exact problem and fixed it, but for the life of me i cannot remember what the cause/solution was.

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