Generate symbol library from inventory spreadsheet

Schematic Library Symbols
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Hello all,

I wonder if there is a software or KiCAD plugin that allows to create a symbol library of the available parts in the inventory. I have hundreds of capacitors, resistors and other passive parts in various sizes. It is very tedious to check each time which part is available and which is not. It would be great if it was possible to create a symbol library from a spreadsheet or CSV file.

Thanks
Adam

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schematics lib is human readable text.
I used to export a CSV then use a simple shell command or script to generate pins description, and paste to an empty symbol.

Later Kicad 6 changed lib format. guess I’m going to update my scripts…

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I am not aware of a tool/plugin which offers that already but if you have a bit interest in coding yourself you can achieve it quite easily with the help of the kicad library utilities, especially the kicad_sym.py.

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