Can not import .kicad_sym

[gkeeth]

It’s a bug that has been fixed. Check it out in 8.0.1-rc1

[PedroSMS]

Thanks for that update.

How do I get the fix?

Kind regards
Pedro

[retiredfeline]

You can help test -rc1, or wait for the official 8.0.1.

Stable version 8.0.1-rc1 available

A release candidate for version 8.0.1 is available for testing. 8.0.1 will be released soon unless critical issues are found in testing this release candidate. You can obtain the release candidate for your platform here: Windows: https://downloads.kicad.org/kicad/windows/explore/8.0-testing/download/kicad-8.0-testing_8.0.1.rc1.1.gec7abb7bff-x86_64.exe macOS: https://downloads.kicad.org/kicad/macos/explore/stable/download/kicad-unified-universal-8.0.1-rc1.dmg Ubuntu: Using the testing PPA: kic…

[PedroSMS]

Thanks for that info.

My system is Linux Tumbleweed (from OpenSUSE). Software from other distributions (like Ubuntu) are often problematic. I don’t want to break my system, so I’ll wait for the update to come via OpenSUSE…

My workaround will be - add the new symbol as a library, use cut-n-paste to create a new symbol, delete the added library…

Thanks everyone for your help.

Kind regards
Pedro

[retiredfeline]

Yeah, I’m on openSUSE too but I don’t even want to use Tumbleweed in case it disrupts my system. So I use the repos for 15.5, and 8.0.0 has just landed there but I’ll wait for 8.0.1 or even 8.0.2. I don’t make boards that often that I must have the new 8.0 features now.

[PedroSMS]

Ahoy!

I have both. Leap 15.4 on another machine. I haven’t looked back since installing Tumbleweed on this machine. I don’t know if they have a migration package.

I was happy to hear that Leap will continue through to V16, and hopefully beyond.

I’ve got Tumbleweed setup to autonomously manage updates, which normally works well. Except for the other day when I opened KiCAD and it said “Welcome to version 8…”

Kind regards
Pedro

[retiredfeline]

Yeah well Tumbleweed is the guinea pig area and KiCad isn’t a major application for me so I don’t want to risk problems with other applications to have the bleeding edge. 15.6 comes out in June anyway. But this is off-topic for KiCad so I’ll stop here.

[RaptorUK]

@retiredfeline

The latter is good when it’s a collection of related symbols you want that should stay together.

Or when people are stuck and need to get access to a symbol . . . it’s then trivial to then Open and Save As the specific symbols needed.

I struggled with the libraries when I first started with KiCad, I got done what I needed to get done but by chance rather than design, I always felt a little unsure of what I was doing, so I do have sympathy for users struggling with libraries.

[PedroSMS]

Hi all,

I have just received the v8.0.1 update via Tumbleweed, and I can confirm that *.kicad_sym is back on the menu - YAY!!!

Kind regards
Pedro