Hi, I’m having some problems importing things to kicad. I can import footprints to kicad, though what I think is a ‘painful’ process and involves eagle, but I cannot find out how to Import schematics. When I go to the Schematic lib editor I have an import option but I cannot see the lib eagle created for me. when I open the bxl file in ultra librarian I see the footprint and the schematic but I don’t know how to import both.
Does anyone know how I can import both footprints and schematics for files like the one found here, preferably in simple steps.
Also can someone point out a site or a location with online workshops and/or seminars on creating plug-ins or any form of developing for kicad, cause I would like to try to get kicad to import these files.
Generally the import/export in Kicad is very limited.
I don’t think UltraLibrarian supports Kicad, so you would have to go via Eagle or something. There are some Eagle to Kicad conversion tools (which run in Eagle), but I found the output quite variable quality. I ended up reworking most of it.
You can write code to convert from one format to another, if the formats are open, but you won’t find a guide that will give you simple steps, because it is not a simple process.
For one-off parts I would do it from scratch in KiCad.
The “free” UL Reader on TI website is quite old and crashes when exporting to KiCad.
The “Online reader” on UL website does not appear to export to KiCad
The latest “UL Reader” on UL website does not do export at all.
To export to KiCad, it appears that at least the “UL Reader Enhanced” is required, $75 for lifetime license which doesn’t seem too bad.
thanks, so can you tell me, or point me to a site that tells me, how to import the schematic? I know how to import footprints but schematics seem to be different for some reason, also some ICs I use have +100 pins so creating schematics by hand is really not viable.