Hello.
My goal is to remove silkscreen lines from LED footprint on my PCB board.
To remove silkscreen from one LED I simply use footprint editor and delete unwanted lines.
But I have a lot of such LEDs where I want to remove silkscreen. All the footprints are the same, so it would be just easier to somehow copy the edited footprint from one LED to others.
So I want to copy this footprint (edited specifically for this element, not in the entire library):
You could also create a new folder
Example Foldername: LED_Custom.pretty
Copy it to:
Version 6
C:\Program Files\KiCad\6.0\share\kicad\footprints
or
Version 7
C:\Program Files\KiCad\7.0\share\kicad\footprints
Then in the Preferences Tab / Manage Footprint Libraries …
At the bottom ‘Click On’ the Folder Icon
Open to the LED_Custom.pretty footprints folder
(this will add it to the libraries)
Then save your custom LED footprint in your new folder
for future reference/access.
You could then ‘Right Button Click’ on any LED
and from the dropdown context menu select
Change Footprint …
Goto and select your custom LED Footprint.