Have a read of the help documentation for pcbnew, it recommends that module management be done with a dummy board file. If you have a hunt in the mods directories you will find these board files for the provided mods.
Essentially you create an A4 size board, and place your modules on it. You can have one board per module lib, or whatever you want. To create the individual module files you use the archive footprints options, which can either recreate the entire lib, or update what is already there. I was not totally convinced that this would work, but after trying it, I found that it did in fact work very well. Andy On Mon, 24 May 2010 08:24:30 -0000 "mgebha" <mar...@jave.de> wrote: > > > > Your software is very good. > > Thanks :) > > > I tryied with a loto of logos and the result is very interesting. > > I think should be an instrument that kicad must to have inside IDE, do > > You agree? > > I think KiCad and its tools are a combination of small, loosely coupled tools > (EESchema, CVpcb, PCBnew, GerbView, 3D Viewer, FreeROUTE). This concept seems > to be quite powerful and allows independet development. > > So I rather think of extracting the module-conversion code from JavE and > providing a stand alone application. Also what I have in mind is some kind of > module manager: I want to be able to move modules from one file to another, > refactor and rename them, etc. I cannot find these functions in KiCad itself, > but it would help me a lot to be able to organize my libraries w/o working > inside the .mod files with a text editor. > > -Markus > > > > ------------------------------------ > > 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 > > >
