The most common errors are that people have imported the modult into a directory that is not part of the libraries that a project knows about.
Use preferences > library to select which libs your project will search. The second is that when importing into an existing library the final save is not done. Andy On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:51:57 -0000 "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > I recently imported a downloaded connector module (con-headers-jp.mod) into > the CvPCB footprint library. The footprints assigned without an error, but I > get an error when I read the netlist into pcbnew. The error says that pcbnew > cannot find the footprints for the connectors that I am using. When I re-run > CvPCB, I get an error that the con-headers-jp.mdc cannot be found. When > importing footprint files, what are all the required file types? Looking at > the modules subdirectory, it contains *.brd, *.mdc, and *.mod files. Are all > these necessary for a footpring library? > > > > ------------------------------------ > > 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 > > >
