Levelling Up Your KiCad Skills

This video covers a range of new PCB design skills in KiCad, including designing custom symbols and footprints, multi-layer routing, using a secondary layer as a ground (or power) plane, and using the silkscreen. Also some bonus mini-skills like using net labels for prettier schematics and editing all traces/vias using selection filters. 00:00 Introduction & Example 1 Overview 00:45 Designing a custom schematic symbol 06:41 Adding our custom symbol to a schematic 07:19 Using net labels to simplify your schematic 08:43 Designing a custom footprint 15:22 Assigning the custom footprint to a symbol 15:50 Laying out the PCB with the custom footprint (+ tips for assignment components) 18:50 Predefining track widths and via sizes 19:40 Two-layer routing' 23:22 Modifying all components of a particular type using selection filters 25:30 Adding text to the silkscreen 27:38 Example 2 Overview 28:40 Using an entire layer as a ground or power plane 31:44 Silkscreening a more complex board