(First ever) PCB Design Check (keyboard)

[Piotr]

@maxwelllllllllllll

LOL

Sometimes you need to use someone else’s footprints, clone or submodule their repos, etc.

I don’t know what GitHub is so don’t understand why LOL.

Trying to use found somewhere symbols/footprints typically lead to:

Downloaded Libraries From CXDA Help?

Hello All, I’m a newbie with Kicad. I was attempting to migrate a downloaded library from the CXDA website of a BA1404 chip. When I navigated to the folder through the Kicad footprint libraries manager the files that I downloaded doesn’t show up. Am I missing something. Maybe the file formats are wrong? I have uploaded Images of what I have. Since we can only put one image per post, I have placed the others in a reply to this post. [CXDA Download]

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NEWBIE: PCB editor

It looks for me that whenever someone uses symbols or footprints found somewhere he loses much more time than if he used KiCad library symbols and footprints or even design his own symbols and footprints.