I haven’t used Kicad for a while except for opening existing projects in which case it works fine.
Now I wanted to make a new project. In schematic, I can’t find my own libraries. I’m using quite a few
chips that aren’t in any standard library, so I have made them all.
The libraries are still in my folder
All the symbol file names are preceded with a “_” so that they are all grouped in the selection menu.
The paths (preferences->configure paths) are properly set, and just in case, I have used the
browser to set them again to make sure there is no typo in any of the paths.
The remaining issue might be to add my libraries again with manage footprint and manage symbol libraries. However, over the years there are quite a few, so it would be nice if I could set up again all at once. Is there a way to do that?
As Kicad is mostly based on text files, I suppose it can be done, but what file should I edit?
I have grepped in my kicad root folder, and the only file which seems to include library names
is kicad-footprints0master/fp-lib-table, which I have just downloaded. So the settings are probably somewhere else.
It has been 9 months, so, were the libraries made in 5.x.x?
Have you upgraded to 6.0.7?
Did you migrate your schematic libraries to the new 6 format from 5?
Yes, sorry for the sketchy information. I have upgraded to 6.0.7, and I’m working on Ubuntu 22.04.
And I have been working with v.6 since it was released, so I don’t think I have v5 libraries anymore.
All the libraries were working for sure with v6 prerelease.
In the meantime, I have added everything by hand and it seems to work
What I just noticed is that my schematic does not get numbered when I make a PCB. Right now,
I have the following numbering. In schematic: J?, R?, etc…
Ye,s I have added all the libraries manually, that’s the only method I could find. If I could know
where this list is stored (i.e. in which file), it would greatly help.
By the way, it would also greatly help to have a tree-like set of libraries. Or the possibility of adding a
tab in the “symbol libraries”, “footprint libraries” panels. There are myriads of footprints I will
probably never use, and everytime I want to add a footprint, I have to browse the whole list.
On the other hand, disabling all the footprints becomes a problem when I want to use a new
one and make it my own by copying in my favorite footprints and / or edit it.
→ Is there a way to add one pane in the footprints lists?
I have also noticed that Kicad flattens the my components lists. Example: I have rectangular
connectors for flat cable. I have 1.27mm and 2.54mm versions. They are stored like this in my
connectors folders on the disk (i.e. with subcategories).
Hi @roboya ,
Would you please edit your last post to “symbols” and “footprints” instead of “components”. This will make it much more easily understood.
