Guide

User guide

Short pages for makers who have never designed a PCB. The same guide is in the app: Settings → User guide.

  1. The screen at a glanceModes, the tool column, the inspector, the view controls and the command palette.
  2. Pencil and fingersThe Pencil draws and fingers navigate; the squeeze menu, barrel roll and hover on Apple Pencil Pro.
  3. Your first board in 10 stepsFrom an empty project to boards in your letterbox: schematic, update PCB, place, route, pour, check and order.
  4. Sketching symbolsDraw resistors, capacitors, diodes and wires by hand with the Pencil; the app turns them into real parts.
  5. Libraries and packsWhere parts come from, how to find them, import KiCad libraries, install packs and make your own part.
  6. Net classes and track widthsWhy power tracks are wider, how the app suggests widths, and how to set them per net.
  7. Ordering at JLCPCBThe order review, the files the factory needs, assembled parts and what to check before you pay.
  8. Files, iCloud and exportWhere projects live, opening from iCloud Drive, autosave, and exporting KiCad, PDF and 3D files.
  9. Keyboard shortcutsThe keys PCB Canvas knows, on the iPad with a keyboard and on the Mac.
  10. Sending feedbackHow to tell us what went wrong or what you miss, what is sent, and what happens after a crash.