How to use a custom made footprint in kiCAD 4.0.1

ccjoseph · January 7, 2016, 11:13am

I created a footprint for a SSR and tried to allocate using CVPCb,But I’m not getting the footprint while searching on Libraries,How to solve it…I’m Using Ubuntu and KiCAD 4.0.1 version

Joan_Sparky · January 7, 2016, 2:51pm

open footprint editor… menu ‘Preferences’.
Use either the wizard or the manager to add your local custom library.

ccjoseph · January 8, 2016, 4:27am

Hi…I added the footprint and the name is showing also,but the foot prints inside the library are not listing

Joan_Sparky · January 8, 2016, 6:00am

Contemporary footprints are .kicad_mod files in a .pretty folder. One footprint per .kicad_mod file.
If you got legacy footprints in a legacy library file you need to tell KiCAD that when you set up the link to that library… there was a dropdown menu for each library entry I think