Importing OrCAD libraries

[Joan_Sparky]

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b. Is there a way to import component properties from a csv or other text file into eeschema so each part is fully spec’d? This would make bom generation a lot smoother.

Maybe look at KiPart?
It reads/writes schematic and symbol library files to get all that information in place (besides tons of other stuff).

Updates to KiPart

KiPart has been around for about a year. It takes a CSV spreadsheet file describing the pins of a part (or parts) and generates a KiCad schematic library. I’ve added another utility to KiPart called kilib2csv. It “completes the circle” and allows KiCad libraries to be converted to CSV files that can serve as the input to KiPart. This allows you to take one or more existing KiCad libraries, convert them to a CSV file, edit all the parts in a spreadsheet, and then regenerate the library with KiPa…