The stuff of Kryton

An eclectic selection of technology with some cookery

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Windows ECAD set up

Intro

I quick set up of tools for ECAD on a fresh Windows install.

Install software witout the faff

Start -> CMD

Nice Gui for Winget & More

Make updating and sorftware installs much easier, I’ll inclued the command line command for each app as well winget install Devolutions.UniGetUI

ECAD tool

A professional grade yet free ECAD tool - highly recomended winget install KiCad.KiCad

GUI git client for Windows

Nice GUI git tool idea for electronics enginners who tend to be more grathical winget install TortoiseGit.TortoiseGit

Text editor

Really nice Text editor with lots of plugints and languige reconginsion winget install Notepad++.Notepad++

Chrome without the AI bloat, you millage may vary.

winget install Vivaldi.Vivaldi

Libre Office

It’s “.fods” format is ideal for git storeing of design calulations in a spreadsheet as it’s tracable. winget install TheDocumentFoundation.LibreOffice

Extensions

Improved grathics for KiCAD

winget install Microsoft.OpenCLGLVulkanCompatabilityPack

Virtio Driver if your using Virtial Machine Manager

winget install RedHat.VirtIO

Virtual box drivers

Not in winget just mount from the Virtual box on the host

Update software in winget

List avalable upgrades

winget upgrade

Update KiCAD for example

winget upgrade KiCad.KiCad