How to insert footprint option in EESCHEMA in the symbol selection if there is only the option "No default footprint"

[Ondry]

@ RaptorUK
i messed up path in “manage symbol libraries” …
but i fixed it, in you are right I have 74HCT now

[Piotr]

@Ondry

I cant see 74HCT, filter cant find it. I didn’t change anything during the installation.

To have my libraries after upgrading to V7 I had to select (at first run) my library lists. I didn’t sow KiCad libraries that were installed with V7. May be you had done something like that and you see old libraries (from V5, V6) even V7 libraries were installed.

I install KiCad libraries as from time to time I copy a footprint from there to my libraries. As footprints are files I copy them into my libraries not with KiCad but with file manager.

Edit.
I spend some time writing and after posting it I sow that you found the path to right libraries.

[retiredfeline]

@Ondry

my old colleagues (teachers) who know how to use Eagle

Don’t worry, the way Autodesk is going, there won’t be Eagle some day.

(Please don’t follow up about Eagle on this thread, use the existing thread for that: Autodesk will no longer sell nor support EAGLE in 2026 )

[Ondry]

The end of Eagle is important argument for switch from Eagle to KiCad at our school.

But still mf_ibfeew says this behavior is maybe bug.

[retiredfeline]

By all means report it. KiCad >> Eagle for responsiveness.

[mf_ibfeew]

opened issue: missing selection of footprints in "add a symbol" (#15550) · Issues · KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad · GitLab

@Ondry: to fill in the section “Kicad Version” you have to copy the whole information from Kicad Schematic–>Help–>About–>button “Copy Version Info”. If the version information is not complete the gitlab bot will automatically close the issue (as in your case).

recommendation: it’s easier to use the kicad builtin function Help–>Report Bug. This opens directly a prefilled issue template on gitlab, with the version information already filled in.

[RaptorUK]

For Device R I get this . . .

. . . which is different to what @Ondry has shown above, is it down to a config issue ? I looked but didn’t find anything obvious, or might it part of the same bug ?

Application: KiCad x64 on x64

Version: 7.0.6, release build

Libraries:
	wxWidgets 3.2.2
	FreeType 2.12.1
	HarfBuzz 6.0.0
	FontConfig 2.14.1
	libcurl/7.88.1-DEV Schannel zlib/1.2.13

Platform: Windows 10 (build 19045), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW

Build Info:
	Date: Jul  6 2023 04:56:45
	wxWidgets: 3.2.2 (wchar_t,wx containers)
	Boost: 1.81.0
	OCC: 7.6.3
	Curl: 7.88.1-DEV
	ngspice: 40
	Compiler: Visual C++ 1936 without C++ ABI

Build settings:
	KICAD_SPICE=ON

[mf_ibfeew]

You have to click on the pull-down-arrow on the right of “no default footprint” to get the original picture.

[RaptorUK]

I had tried that yesterday and again now . . . I also tried waiting a few mins . . . not helping though.

[mf_ibfeew]

interesting. I will add this thread to the girlab issue - maybe the pictures are helpful.

[paulvdh]

I’ve also looked at a few schematic symbols, and most of the 74LSxx (LS is the base for many derived TTL symbols) and in most the No default footprint pulldown box is empty. But for an 74LS74 it does show some dip variants, but no SMT.

This gets weirder.
When I load the 74ls74 in the Symbol Editor, and then File / Symbol Properties / Footprint Filters, then it only shows the DIP variant:

But for the 74LS00 there is also an SO14 in the footprint filters.

[mf_ibfeew]

The nightly version already got a bugfix (and it was indeed somehow affected by the DeMorgan-setting). So with the next nightly (tomorrow) I can check again.
Or somebody else is faster and compiles the nightly from source