Newbie in kicad utilisation but good user of Circuit Studio.
I wanted to test the importation of CS library into kicad , it works fine but the links between the SCH lib and the PCB lib is broken.
In circuit studio, in the schematic creation the footprint is automatically linked with the Sch library or you can select another one if you have multiple footprint for the component.
As I see in kicad after creating the schematic you have to select each footprint manually, is it possible like in CS to set the good footprint directly in the library.
I don’t know CS but in KiCad you can directly add a link to a footprint to a schematic symbol in the library. Some symbols in KiCad’s librarys already have these links, but others don’t.
In KiCad schematic symbols are quite loosely coupled with PCB footprints. It’s just a text string in the schematic symbol properties, and once your “part” is in your project the link between the symbol and the footprint is maintained with an (invisible to the user) UUID.
No, you don’t have to do them one by one, but you can also assign footprints “in bulk”. This can be done with Schematic Editor / Tools / Assign Footprints or with Schematic / Tools / Edit Symbol Fields (Either with the grouping, or with copy & paste in the spreadsheet view).
For simple parts such as resistors and capacitors, I often assign a footprint to the first symbol I place in the schematic. and then just make copies from that symbol. That way the footprints are also already handled.
This is all pretty much beginners stuff, explained a lot of times on this forum and also in beginner tutorials. For example:
You can, but you certainly don’t have to! I’m using KiCad since 2017 and I have never even tried this functionality. I have just created my own libraries (with each symbol having his footprint specified) before drawing first schematic.