If you want to use this symbol as a GLOBAL library, you need to move your library OUTSIDE of your project and relink it in the library manager (the tab you are showing). Make a new directory somewhere ‘Camerart libraries’ If you want it as a local, ‘Project specific library’, use the ‘Project Specific Libraries’ tab.
${KIPJMOD} is ‘shorthand’ for the current project directory (technically this is an 'Environmental Variable) - so putting a link to the current project in the global library table will cause confusion. Each time you start a new project, KiCad will complain as this library will obviously not exist in the new project.
Generally, I would suggest that every time you make a new symbol, you put it in a personal, GLOBAL library so you can use it again in future. The disadvantage used to be that the project then became rather less portable. In KiCad 6 this is less of an issue.
Final reminder, DO NOT put your personal assets in a KiCad supplied library. These should NOT be modified as any future update WILL wipe them out. If you want to use a KiCad asset as a basis for a new symbol, copy it into your own library first.
Hi J1 and J2
Yes, I’m still lost!
I think the correct process, for designing a symbol and seeing it through the system to produce a PCB, is beyond my skills.
This is a rare thing to do, and between them I will forget, like a couple of times before, so I’ve decided that for me, the best way, is to do it as I did in my 1st post here, and simply draw each one as I go along into my PCBs.
Thanks,
C
Hi J and P,
To clarify! Is it possible to have my own folder, (e,g, DEVICE) where I can put all of my old and new creations into, and ADD it into the Global list?
OR, I put all of my creations into a separate folder, and FIND and add them into any project?
C
If you add a library name to the global table, but then use a relative path, then each of your projects that tries to find that library uses the relative path, and it’s relative to that project, and that is the part that does not work.
Hi,
I’ve been through all of the steps over and over, including removing ak8963c as suggested. (I saved it in the CAMERART folder) I still don’t see the absolute/relative path choice. (I’m slightly dyslexic)
As you can see during my ‘going round in circles’ ak8963c has appeared back including 2x test CAMERART folders in a separate place, with ak8963c.lib, AK8963C-cache and AK8963C-rescue inside each. Happily I can mess about and not loose it.
Here is a screen shot of what just happened, while trying a new project called ‘test’.
C
I don’t know what you were trying to achieve in your screenshot but you are editing the library instance in bold (ak8963c) and not the highlighted line. I would remove this and the other CAMERART_LIBS directories and just stick to the instance in your CAMERART library.
I think I also replied to you in another thread
about how to design symbols.
Unfortunately, this is exactly not how to draw a symbol - you have tried to follow the pinout exactly - even to the extent of casting it as a square box to match the package shape.
It will be fiddly to connect up and have crossing wires and no logical flow.
Make it a bigger, rectangular block with power at top, GND at bottom, and arrange your spi bus pins together to match your controller pinout. Your schematic will be much cleaner.
The point of the screen shot was to show the ‘unhandled exeption’ which either shut down Kicad or didn’t allow any progress.
I have mentioned that, when following the previous instructions, I’m not getting the Absolute/relative choice, which I think may be the problem. This is why I’ve tried so many libraries with different names. I use capitals sometimes so I can see what’s happening.
As for design symbols, in this case it’s easier for me to have the symbol in the same shape as the footprint. I may change as I practice.
C
