KiCAD Windows 7 - download and Install TUTORIAL

This tutorial is intended for beginners in printed circuit board design who wish to design a Schematics using the free KiCAD Schematics Capture Tool.



How to downlod and install Kicad on Windows

1. Go to the following page

http://www.kicad-pcb.org/display/KICAD/Download+Kicad

Click on the Windows logo ( They could have made it more simple , e.g. a text link in addition to the Image, which is not intuitively clear).



Now click on the .exe program that says

KiCad-2012-01-19-BZR3256-stable-Win_full_with_components_doc_install.exe

It is about 150 Mega Byte of dowload, that will typically take 10 minutes on a broadband to download