Chapter 9. More about KiCad documentation

Chapter 9. More about KiCad documentation

This has been a quick guide on most of the features in KiCad. For more detailed instructions consult the help files which you can access through each KiCad module. Click on Help → Manual.

KiCad comes with a pretty good set of multi-language manuals for all its four software components.

The English version of all KiCad manuals are distributed with KiCad.

In addition to its manuals, KiCad is distributed with this tutorial, which has been translated into other languages. All the different versions of this tutorial are distributed free of charge with all recent versions of KiCad. This tutorial as well as the manuals should be packaged with your version of KiCad on your given platform.

For example, on Linux the typical locations are in the following directories, depending on your exact distribution:

  1. /usr/share/doc/kicad/help/en/
  2. /usr/local/share/doc/kicad/help/en

On Windows it is in:

  1. <installation directory>/share/doc/kicad/help/en

On OS X:

  1. /Library/Application Support/kicad/help/en