Yes you can place the lib anywhere you want. I keep mine in my home directory (linux version). This is the best option anyway, because there is always the danger of libs getting overwritten during a program upgrade.
Just remember to include your libs into the project with the preferences > library tool. If this gets tedious (you have to do this for each new project) you can modify the default kicad.pro project and add them to this, then they will be available to each new project automatically. Andy On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:55:02 -0000 "transistorman57508" <transistortoas...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > Hello, > I just started using kicad's LibEdit and am saving my new symbols to > c:\Program Files\KiCAD\share\library\device.lib. Is it at all possible to > create and use my own .lib file? Can I have it outside the c:\Program Files > directory? For the footprints I would like to do something along the same > lines too, would that be possible? > > Thanks, > > Frank > > > > ------------------------------------ > > 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 > > >
