deaninkc a écrit : > > No offense taken. Believe me I develop accounting software for a > living and have dealt with enough people not reading the documentation > to know better. I've read and googled for hours and I seem to be > overlooking this one. I don't even see a mention of a .mdc file > anywhere. I'll give it another shot but I figured someone could answer > in a couple minutes of their time rather than me spenting and other > couple of hours looking. This is supposed to be a "Community". > .mdc files are created when a .mod library is edited and saved. .mdc files contains only the doc anc keywords for footprints (which is also in .mod files). They are used for a fast access to these infos (in pcbnew and cvpcb). because .mod files can be very larges, pcbnew and cvpcb uses small .mdc files to get and show doc and keywords for a given footprint when displaying the list of footprints. This allows a fast access for the footprint doc and keywords (this is very noticeable when using network installation) If they are missing, doc and keywords are not accessible. A missing .mdc file is easily rebuild: run pcbnew: in modedit select the given library load any footprint from this lib save it. the .mod and .mdc will be updated (.mdc created if not exists)
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