3 Hours! Download the tutorial for making your own modules/symbols. 2 minutes
Go thru the tutorial. 10 minutes Make your own symbol and module. 5 minutes These 17 minutes are an investment well worth your time! Sorry if this sounds rude, it's not my intention! The symbol/module editor of KiCad is one of the best I've seen - even compared with the really really expensive schematic capture/PCB design softwares. It's really intuitive and easy to use. It's one of the strengths with KiCad. I do really (!) recommend you to look in the tutorial and after your first symbol/module design, you have not problems with parts anymore. You can of course translate Orcads symbols but you just postpone the day when you have to add a new part, not depending on Orcad, just the datasheet from the supplier. If everyone of the KiCad users adhered to this, we would soon find Orcad and other commercial packages looking at KiCad symbols... :) //Dan, M0DFI On Friday 13 February 2009 22:03:27 vincetatator wrote: > Hello Kicad users, > > I'm trying to use Kicad for the first time. > > I don't find a kicad library for a component (lm3s6918 from luminary > micro) i want to use. I found a library for Altium, for Orcad, for > PADS logic but not for Kicad. > > > I spend 3 hours looking for a way to convert an orcad library to a > kicad one without success. > > Is it possible to do that? > > I'm using ubuntu 8.10, kicad 2007-11-29, and I can't use Orcad in my > job office. > > Thanks a lot. > > Vincent
