I just created a test project in KiCAD and imported a few parts from the DigiKey library. An interesting thing is that the footprints are tied to the actual symbol. The reason why this is interesting is that it is not done this way in the default KiCAD library. The default library requires you to choose the footprints in an additional step. This could be good or bad depending on what you are used to. Eagle users should be right at home with this feature.
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 11:09 AM Carl Nobile <[email protected]> wrote: > This is pretty cool, I cloned their repo and will try to see what I get > over this weekend. > > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 11:01 AM Pete Soper via TriEmbed < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> That's very interesting that Digikey is embracing the OSS choice. It >> doesn't appear that they have anything similar for Altium or Eagle or the >> other popular systems. Can somebody confirm this? If it's true this could >> possibly become a big deal and hugely boost the use of KiCad the way >> Element14 boosted Eagle. I wonder if KiCad has a usable aurorouter yet? >> >> Here's another PCB CAD resource that may be of general interest, spanning >> many CAD vendor systems: >> >> https://www.ultralibrarian.com >> >> -Pete >> >> >> -------- Original message -------- >> From: Mike Lisanke via TriEmbed <[email protected]> >> Date: 1/11/19 1:11 AM (GMT-05:00) >> To: Triangle Embedded Interest Group <[email protected]> >> Subject: [TriEmbed] KiCad Library | DigiKey >> >> https://www.digikey.com/en/resources/design-tools/kicad >> >> KiCad symbol and footprint library is created in house by DigiKey >> Technicians and engineers and is available for free. >> >> some of you probably knew this already >> _______________________________________________ >> Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list >> >> To post message: [email protected] >> List info: >> http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org >> TriEmbed web site: http://TriEmbed.org >> To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: mailto: >> [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe >> >> > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Carl J. Nobile (Software Engineer) > [email protected] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Carl J. Nobile (Software Engineer) [email protected] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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