I've never seen a rotate page option, but then again I've never needed one. If you really want to use different page sizes, there is a user option you can set to whatever page size you like. (right at the bottom of the list)
Many libs you find are conversions from other packages such as eagle, and the conversion process sometimes does not work as well as you would expect. best to try and find a dedicated kicad or kicad tested part. Better yet learn how to draw your own parts. :-) (it's easy and is something you will be doing a lot of as you get into the process a bit more) However you have missed a fairly basic point, there is nothing special about the parts, they are just an outline. So any device with the same pin arrangement will do. In this case the good old 741 will do the job. Just edit the name to be your LM307 (Grabbing the nearest compatiable device and tweaking it to fit your needs is a fairly common method of working...) The way to do this is to edit the LM741 in the lib editor, change the value field (which is the name) the LM319 Then save the part again. You may have see several warnings about not saving to the default libs, so make sure that you create your own libs and mods in your home directory and save things to there just in case. You will have to add these libs to your project, but that's easy enough. The pin labels and such like are all accessible from the right click context menu. You can also rotate and position via the keyboard as well. Text fields (light blue) can be edited, moved and rotated directly. Place the mouse over the field, right click and select the rotate, move edit or whatever you need. The pin numbers are fixed, but you can change some options within the lib editor as to their position. Do take the time to run through the tutorial a few times. Nothing is really hard, but like many things, Kicad does have it's quirks and a bit of practice is needed to get used to it. Note thet the tutorial is a bit old now, but it still serves it's purpose. There is also much more extensive help available under the help menu in each of the parts of kicad, Eeschems, pcbNew, etc. this brings up pdf documents, which live in the docs directory under kicad. You can access them directly if you prefer. Andy On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:25:47 -0000 "foobar.foobar" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have started using KiCAD (on Linux and I have a few questions I cant find > answers for on the Wiki or in the help file. > > First up, in the schematic editor in the page settings dialog where you can > select your page size, I can't see an option for changing the page > orientation to portrait. Does this option not exist or is it somewhere else? > > Secondly, I am making an analog synth VCO and noticed none of the components > I was using was in the standard libraries. Searching google lead me to this > site: http://www.kicadlib.org/ I then searched for a component e.g. LM307N > which then lead me to this file: > http://www.reniemarquet.cjb.net/oshec/egl_libs4.zip. Inside the archive the > "linear" package had the component I wanted in it which is fine. > > However, the components in that library don't display properly, or rather the > text that is the "Pin Name" of each pin overlap each other (this is in the > schematic editor) so you cant really read any of the pin labels as they are > "on top of each other". So I then started trying to edit the components in > the component editor and I can't seem to find a way of "positioning" the > blue/greenish text that is the "Pin Name" text, it just seems to put them at > the end of the pin. If you don't understand what I am on about I can take a > screenshot. > > So... has anyone else needed these old op-amp components and knows a better > library where the components are better designed (for use in the schematic > editor) or is there actually a way of positioning the "Pin Name" text to > where you want instead of it doing it itself and causing problems....all the > standard components seem to be okay. I could just not label the pins but it > makes things easier. > > Thanks! > > > > ------------------------------------ > > 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 > > >
