Search for ‘atomic’ or ‘integrated’ on the forums.. plenty of posts regarding this.
I’m not sure if I’m being very slow here, but is there some way to quickly edit fields of components in eeschema?
I’ve got my schematic and board design done and the prototype board is out for manufacture. Now while I wait for it, I’d like to go through the schematic and add some more info to each component - eg assign a storage location for each component type so that when I order components and put them in a storage system, I know where to find each one.
Do I really have to edit each compon…
If you go long in KiCAD, you need the following folders, preferably on a data share/drive and not on your os/system drive for more easy backup:
symbols (currently .lib files, will become .sweet folders afaik with symbol files .kicad_sym? in them)
footprints (.pretty folders which contain .kicad_mod files, which are the footprints)
3d models (suggest similar subfolders as for footprints, models are in .wlr files (VRML), but can be .igs (IGES) or .stp (STEP) in far future (*))
projects (folder t…
Be aware that you need to run your own libraries (in another folder + setup paths in KiCAD for this) and only import from the official ones, what you need.