Building, Organising and Maintaining User Symbol Libraries

[paulvdh]

Is this initiative by any chance triggered by the trhead below?

Ignition coil symbol

I have been looking to see if I could find a symbol for ignition coil. Something distinguishing from a transformer. Have spent a couple of hours in the hope I would not need to do one myself. Well looking was not on my side. [ should mention I understand the concept of using KiCAD but I am far from using it in practice, there seem to bee a big difference] Is there anyone that has seen such an item. I thought I was SnapEDA member but seems I am not so I do not know it one could be found there. …

Rene Poschl made a FAQ article for creating symbol libraries that is in need of an update:

Creating a new symbol library and a new symbol in KiCad 5

Disclaimer: Screenshots taken in a nightly from after the 5.0.x releases. (KiCad 5.0.x and 5.1.x will look very similar. KiCad version 4 had a very different symbol editor meaning this tutorial is not really suitable to teach symbol creation in KiCad version 4) Symbol libraries are always a pair of files. A .lib file that contains the symbol data and a .dcm file that holds documentation information for aliases. Any interface with kicad will only list the .lib file as it knows that it can reach…

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Hermit has made a new listing for the KiCad V6 FAQ

https://forum.kicad.info/t/version-6-faq-index/35310/2