I now have KiCad v5. I have three components in my schematic that I want to see how they look on the PCB>. In Eeschema, I annotate, build net and debug. I then click to assign PCB footprints. I get the new screen and nothing. I cannot seem to associate libraries. I restarted my PC Please help, what …

Assign footprints is crazy slow

Rene_Poschl August 9, 2018, 7:47am 8

I had KiCad 4 installed previosly. Now i updated to v5. Now i have some problems with the library setup FAQ

Recommended reading: Library management in KiCad version 5 KiCad does not automatically discover libs. Nor does it update the list of libraries on update. If you had KiCad 4.0.x installed previously then i would bet you still have parts of its configuration surviving. Most importantly the fp-lib-table. This file controls which footprint libs you use. If this is the case then you probably still run the on demand online footprint libs originally “distributed” with KiCad 4.0.x installations. The …

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