[kicad-users] Loading Libraries
I am not understanding something here. I am in Eschema, I select preferences then libs and dir. I add (or ins) new libraries. I save cfg to the project file name. As long as I am in the current sheet libraries I added are there. Then I exit eschema. When I come back the libraries I added are not there. I also tried to save cfg to kicad.pro but it did the same thing. What am I doing wrong? I would like the libraries I add to be global, that is available for any future design.
RE: [kicad-users] Loading Libraries
Doug, In order for the libraries to be global, they must be added to the template.pro files, either to the .sch or .brd files depending on wether they are schematic symbols or pcb modules. This project is usually found in the template folder. Note that the order of adding libraries will also effect (affect?) their use. I.e., if you have a schematic symbol called, say, r, kicad will use the first occurrence as its default symbol. So, if you have redrawn the Kicad-supplied r, and saved it to Dougs-passives.lib it will only be used if this library (Dougs-passives.lib) appears in the list prior to say, devices. _ From: kicad-users@yahoogroups.com [mailto:kicad-us...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Doug Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 2:17 AM To: kicad-users@yahoogroups.com Subject: [kicad-users] Loading Libraries I am not understanding something here. I am in Eschema, I select preferences then libs and dir. I add (or ins) new libraries. I save cfg to the project file name. As long as I am in the current sheet libraries I added are there. Then I exit eschema. When I come back the libraries I added are not there. I also tried to save cfg to kicad.pro but it did the same thing. What am I doing wrong? I would like the libraries I add to be global, that is available for any future design.
[kicad-users] Re: Loading Libraries
I understand the ordering concept for libraries. I used Orcad for many years. I am still not getting what you are saying though. Do I need to actually create the filename template.pro? My template directory under shares currently has one file called kicad.pro which I may have created in fooling around. What I am doing now is going into eschema, adding the libraries, and creating the schematic. I then save the sheet. When I come back to change it I have to reload the libraries if I want to add any parts that are in them. Parts previously added from them are still there though. The confusing thing is that libraries can only be added in eschema in the current sheet as I see it unless rhis needs to me a manual thing I do. I would think that there would be a global library command in the opening project screen. --- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, Donald Weissgerber donw1...@... wrote: Doug, In order for the libraries to be global, they must be added to the template.pro files, either to the .sch or .brd files depending on wether they are schematic symbols or pcb modules. This project is usually found in the template folder. Note that the order of adding libraries will also effect (affect?) their use. I.e., if you have a schematic symbol called, say, r, kicad will use the first occurrence as its default symbol. So, if you have redrawn the Kicad-supplied r, and saved it to Dougs-passives.lib it will only be used if this library (Dougs-passives.lib) appears in the list prior to say, devices. _ From: kicad-users@yahoogroups.com [mailto:kicad-us...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Doug Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 2:17 AM To: kicad-users@yahoogroups.com Subject: [kicad-users] Loading Libraries I am not understanding something here. I am in Eschema, I select preferences then libs and dir. I add (or ins) new libraries. I save cfg to the project file name. As long as I am in the current sheet libraries I added are there. Then I exit eschema. When I come back the libraries I added are not there. I also tried to save cfg to kicad.pro but it did the same thing. What am I doing wrong? I would like the libraries I add to be global, that is available for any future design.
[kicad-users] Re: Loading Libraries
--- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, Doug dsc3...@... wrote: I am not understanding something here. I am in Eschema, I select preferences then libs and dir. I add (or ins) new libraries. I save cfg to the project file name. As long as I am in the current sheet libraries I added are there. Then I exit eschema. When I come back the libraries I added are not there. I also tried to save cfg to kicad.pro but it did the same thing. What am I doing wrong? I would like the libraries I add to be global, that is available for any future design. I haven't tried this, so there's a chance that doing so may cause dandruf, your car to catch on fire, or the sky to fall but it looks like editing kicad/share/template/kicad.pro directly to add your custom libraries might do the trick. The down side is that installing a new version of Kicad would probably overwrite your edits. I just keep all my self-build outlines and modules in a local.lib or .mod and then add those to the new projects.
