Thank you for everyones advice. It merely confirmed I wasn't doing anything wrong.
For some reason the fields tab was missing from the options menu. I uninstalled and reinstalled and still didn't fix it. So instead I downloaded version 20080825c and installed tha instead and voila the fields tab appeared. So I guess theres a bug in the latest windows version. ________________________________ From: N9GOD <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, 8 November, 2009 2:59:17 Subject: [kicad-users] Re: Library problems Bernd has done a very nice job on this manual. There are some issues with different terminology in the various language versions. For the life of me, I cannot understand why in English, they designate the field "Value", in German as "Werk/Chip" and Lord only knows what else in other languages. How about "Name" (English) "Nom" (French?) "Nomen" German? etc. Or heck, how about PartNumber <G> ? As an English user I want to insert the value, i.e. 0.001uF in the "Value" field ... which will work as well a "C" but is not very helpful when you have a couple hundred different caps with the real-world value of 0.001uF .... sigh. Still the best damn software out there in my humble opinion though. --- In [email protected], "Bernd Wiebus" <bernd.wie...@...> wrote: > > Hello > > > I go into library editor and select a library. Then i choose a part from > > > this library and edit it and then i open the new library to save it in > > and am forced to save it with the same name. Why is there no option to > > change the name?! > > I had the same problem at the beginning, when i started to write my own > library. So i wrote a manual about editing symbols (i did not yet something > big with modules). You will find my manual about the symbol editor at the > attachment as "SymboleFuerKiCad318082009-RevC-EN.pdf". > You also will find this file at the repository of the KiCAD users Mailing > list, wehere are you member. > There you will find the original of this manual, which i wrote in german and > translated it to englisch, too. The symbol library is also in this > repository, and is named SymbolsSimilarEN60617+oldDIN617-RevB-en.lib . > > I now, there are many ways to create a new symbol from scrap, but this will > be a little bit confusing sometimes. > > With best regards: Bernd Wiebus alias dl1eic > > > -- > GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! > Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01 > ------------------------------------ Please read the Kicad FAQ in the group files section before posting your question. Please post your bug reports here. They will be picked up by the creator of Kicad. Please visit http://www.kicadlib.org for details of how to contribute your symbols/modules to the kicad library. For building Kicad from source and other development questions visit the kicad-devel group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-develYahoo! Groups Links
