How to find prooper RGB LED footprint association

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I am trying to design a board using a shared anode RGB LED’s: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10820. I was able to make the schematic, and the RBG LED component was easy enough to find, but when I tried to associate the RGB LED’s to their footprint, I couldn’t find a four pin common anode LED’s on the list of diode footprints. Is there a footprint for these LED’s available and how do I find it? Thanks.

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Is the component compatible with LED_D5.0mm-4 in library “LEDs”?

Edit: use component (aka symbol) device:LED_RABG and footprint LED_D5.0mm-4, where pin 1 = Red, pin 3 = Green and pin 4 = Blue. I don’t know why that info isn’t on the component (aka symbol).

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I was able to find the component for the schematic:

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But when I run CvPcb to associate the components with a footprint, I cannot find 4-pin LED’s on the list of diodes.The footprint names aren’t very descriptive. I’ve tried a few at random but they all end up having two pins when I open them on the PCB.

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You should be able to draw the footprint if it’s not available. It’s not that hard and with some experience takes maybe 15 minutes if you start from a existing similar one.

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I see. Thank you, that’s probably what I’ll end up doing. Is there a way I could draw the footprint and then save it so it can be used when associating components and footprints? I know I could draw the footprint on the pcb, but then the tracks couldn’t be automatically routed.

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http://docs.kicad.org/stable/en/pcbnew.html#_footprint_editor_creating_and_editing_footprints

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Don’t use that it has the wrong pinout. Use LED_RABG.

You can get a preview of the footprint in the cvpcb dialog, with the toolbar button “View selected button”.

The footprint you need is called “LED_D5.0mm-4”, and it is in the library “LEDs”

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