Chapter 3. Use KiCad Manager

Chapter 3. Use KiCad Manager

The KiCad Manager (kicad or kicad.exe file) is a tool which can easily run the other tools (editors, gerber viewer and utility tools) when creating a design.

Running the other tools from KiCad manager has some advantages:

• cross probing between schematic editor and board editor.
• cross probing between schematic editor and footprint selector (CvPcb).

But you can only edit the current project files.

(When these tools are run in stand alone mode, you can open any file in any project but cross probing between tools can give strange results)