Hi all,
First of all I would like give some kudos to the people that have made all the footprints in 5.1.
There are however room for improvements. The footprint I mention in the subject have errors in it which makes it unusable unless changed.
As you can see there are two pins 29 which makes every pin after that misplaced. Pin 41 is overlapped with pin 38 which I don’t understand how the error checker can allow, nor two pins with the same number.
I don’t know whether this is the right forum to submit a bug report or not but it’s getting tedious to correct this footprint every time I want to use it.
In this excellent FAQ Library management in KiCad version 5 (sections " Personalized setup for the official library" and " Using a local git repository").
Setting up is easy. You can find the clone instructions for git pretty easy. I use this to stay updated:
# Script to update Kicad Version 5 libaries from github
#!/bin/bash
cd kicad-packages3D
git fetch https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-packages3D.git
cd ..
cd kicad-symbols
git fetch https://github.com/kicad/kicad-symbols
cd ..
cd kicad-footprints
git fetch https://github.com/kicad/kicad-footprints
cd ..
exit
Edit:
Johan’s post #3 links to github which suggest it was already fixed in 2017-11-16
The weird thing is that was still in the era of Kicad 4, while the Kicad 4 libraries had plural names (Packages_… instead of Package_… , etc).
I found the problem. When you upgrade KiCad it doesn’t update the libraries. You have to purge the package first, after that everything started to work as expected. apt purge kicad and then apt install kicad with all the trimmings.
I’m always a tad more timid. mv .config/kicad .config/kicad.bak0 1 2 3 whatever. Or use a date code with a letter. Depends on how often I think I might need to do this.
