Not that I know of. The .sch file does contain a list of what libs it
knows about, and that is what will appear in the library list when you
use the editor. However the parts are only simple text, and once they are
in the .sch file there is not really any need to refer to the actual lib.
Also there are SO many devices available, both native and converted that
to try to state what lib was used would be very difficult, especially if
moving things from machine to machine (hence why the cache is created)
This sort of thing all boils down to project management, You as the
designer need to create a system that you can work with and maintain.
As I don;t make to many PCB's, just what I do for home projects, I have
a library set up in my home directory (I use the linux version of
Kicad) and I drop any odd parts and mods that I use or create which are
not in the standard library into there, For other libs when they are for a
whole series of parts, rather like the microchip lib in the standard
lib, I do create that as a stand-alone lib, but I make sure that I
know where it is, it all goes into my own lib directory.
What I don't do is include an entire set of libs from something like the
oshec,org as a hugen monolithic lump. That just makes things very hard to
manage.
Andy
On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:40:38 -0000
"tom_iphi" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Andy, Dan,
>
> thanks for the hints. I found the cash and retrieved my components form
> there.
> They might still have been sitting in some library, but I couldn't figure out
> in which one.
>
> An info function would be handy that tells you from which library a component
> or module comes. Does KiCAD contain something like this?
>
> Tom
>
> --- In [email protected], Dan Andersson <d...@...> wrote:
> >
> > On Monday 01 February 2010 18:39:56 tom_iphi wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > can somebody give me a hint how to copy a component from the schematic to
> > > library editor? Somehow some of my components have disappeared from the
> > > library, but I can still see them in the schematic.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> >
> >
> > Nope, you're wrong Tom.
> >
> > If you can see them, they are there.
> >
> > If I install a new KiCad without the VNWA2 libs and modules correctly
> > copied,
> > I see it in the schema or pcb drawing.
> >
> > Catch me on skype for a cgat.
> >
> > /Dan
> >
>
>
>
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