You can convert arbitrary graphics into rule areas, does this help? E.g. Draw circle, right click, create from selection, rule area

Obsidian works well for me

That's probably what I would try first.

Indeed

City of Lost Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky

If you want to check it out, there is an overview at dev-docs.kicad.org/en/apis-and-... and you can find the Python bindings at gitlab.com/kicad/code/k... (and published on PyPI)

Documentation and tutorials are still scarce, so this is for the more adventurous at the moment :)

While it doesn't come with many shiny new features vs. the old SWIG API (yet), it does represent a huge step forward: a stable API that we can maintain over time rather than something fragile that could break plugins with every KiCad release.

Wow, that's an old one! The kapton window on the front is the protective layer that gives you a chance to not break the beryllium window on the actual x-ray detector. They are replaceable because if you keep pressing it into a pile of metal or mineral bits they tend to puncture.

I still haven't found a reason to move off of Alfred

I haven't noticed any issues yet, other than areas where Altium has some feature KiCad doesn't (e.g. if you use custom padstacks, they aren't supported in KiCad 8 and those pads will be interpreted as if they weren't custom -- although that one is fixed in the upcoming version 9)

As someone who uses both: have you tried directly adding your Altium libs to KiCad? It has helped make it easier to adopt KiCad at work for me.

We only officially support platforms that at least one of the developers uses and wants to support. KiCad should work fine on ARM Linux devices but we don't test it.

Can you share a screenshot of a place where you are thinking you might want to use a bus?

I was planning on writing about that sometime. Are any things about it particularly confusing?

We aim for a new major version every year around the start of February