Arduino mega draw schema

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Hi! I am very new to kicad and just created and ordered my first pcb :wink:
For my seond project i would like to create a arduino mega shield.
I found a pcd layout thru google that has all the pins in correct place
But how can i assign this to the correct footprint. There is no file that i can find
So i thought i just draw the pcb route tracks but the pencil will not snap to the pbc points.
All advice is more then welcome!

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Maybe @SchrodingersGat can help out. This says it is for Kicad V4 so I’m not sure if it would work for V5.

https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library/blob/master/template/Arduino_Mega_R3/Arduino_Mega.kicad_pcb

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There’s such a template integrated in KiCad, at least in this Windows installation. Create a new project from template and find the template there.

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Interesting. I compile from source on Linux and nothing there. The directory is updated but I have some old files there. Family matters have kept me from doing much for about a year now.

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Templates are in their own repo so if you compile the source yourself then you need to add the templates the same way as you need to add the libraries

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Thanks got it now. My templates were set to the wrong path :frowning:

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