Lately we’ve been testing the KiCad waters. For the ATX Breakout Board v2 we needed to escape Eagle’s PCB constraints, and we succeed.

A major hurdle to using any new CAD package is that all your part libraries have to be built again.

Luckily Sjaak pointed us to a script that helps you convert your library from Eagle to KiCad. We did hit a tiny snag in the conversion. All the squared pin 1 pins in the Eagle parts get converted with an error on that pin in KiCad. This is a small error compared with building each part from scratch.

You can get our KiCad library from the SVN. Keep in mind we are just messing around with KiCad, there’s a ton of bugs in there we don’t know about.