On 3 Oct 2007 at 20:17, degrootc wrote: > Hi Dave, > > > In eeschema, open the Library Editor. If you go to "Fields", one of > the fields > > is the footprint. This is blank in the supplied libraries. If you > type the name > > of a footprint, > > Thanks for your response. This is interesting. It allows me to set > the default footprint in eeschema when I lay down a component. It > certainly is better then what I have currently. I suppose I could just > go into the *.lib files and add these fields in a text editor to speed > up the edits. I'm starting to think that I'm moving further and > further into a customer application usage pattern and thus will have > difficulties when I update the version of kicad I use mmmm. > > Thanks C. > I create a special library for each project I do. I then copy the components I need from the supplied libraries to my special library and make modifications there. That way, if I update KICAD, my modified components don't get overwritten.
Dave - WB6DHW <http://wb6dhw.com>
