How to offline setup footprint libraries instead of online through github

rightwing · October 25, 2017, 9:54am

I’m at the stage of schematic and now I would like to go to CvPCB but since I’m on a proxy network I can’t do it through github.
Can someone suggest me step by step procedure of setting up the environment (variables, paths, files savings etc) for making CvPCB work with offline downloaded libraries?
Thanks.

Rene_Poschl · October 25, 2017, 10:20am

or use the python download script found in the kicad-library-utils repo. (This can download a specific release of the repos. But this script does not setup your fp-lib-table this still needs to be done with the lib wizard.)

github.com

KiCad/kicad-library-utils/blob/master/download_pretty_libs.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#
# Download script for KiCad version 4 libraries. 
# KiCad version 5 does not need such a script as all footprint libs 
# are consolitated into one repository (https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-footprints)

from __future__ import print_function

import argparse
import sys
import re
import os
import subprocess
import platform

# Github address information
GITHUB_URL = "https://www.github.com/KiCad"
GITHUB_URL_SSH = "git@github.com:KiCad"
GITHUB_FP_LIB_TABLE = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KiCad/kicad-library/master/template/fp-lib-table.for-github"

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bobc · October 25, 2017, 10:50am

@Rene_Poschl I’m not sure either of those methods work through a proxy.

The first step is to get the zip files for the footprints. There are versioned compendium zips at http://downloads.kicad.org/libraries/. To get the latest versions from KiCad, you need to download the zip for each repository, which is a bit tedious. I don’t know if there is a script to do that using http only, it could be done.

Once you have the zip files, it is easy.

Unzip the files on local disk.
Delete existing github entries in Footprint Library Manager
Use the Footprint Library Wizard to import local libs