I’ve used Kicad in the past but its been a while. When I used it last I seemed to have access to libraries that came with Kicad.
I downloaded a version in December for a quick mod and it worked fine, but I didn’t have to place new parts or make part changes. But today I need to change some parts and footprints. Where I used to see symbol libraries and footprint libraries. I can’t find them where I used to see them.
I could use some guidance in learning how the library system has changed.
I’m running 5.99.0-7833-g0d57f90982 on Windows 10.
I went to the project window. Preferences. Manage Symbol libraries.
In that window I went to the Global tab. I unchecked every library.
I picked the Diodes library because diodes are common. I hit the folder icon off to the right and selected the diode library that appeared when it was visible. I noticed that before I did this it was .lib and after I did this it was .kicad_sym.
That still didn’t work.
Then I noticed a column that said “legacy”. I clicked and found a pulldown. I selected “kicad” instead of “legacy”. I hit “OK”.
When I went back to the schematic I had a diodes library again!