KiCad: The case for Database driven design

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I have moved everything to Windows now and it is working. It seems something with the WSL 2 / Ubuntu is not working as expected there.

Downloaded SQLite3 (DLL and EXE) and added those to the path variable. (This step is not needed as everything is set up when you install the ODBC driver)

This is the result:
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Thank you so much for the help :smiley:

Instructions TLDR;
  1. Install ODBC driver on Windows
  2. Download the reference/test database and configuration files mentioned above
  3. Open “ODBC Data Sources” and create a new entry for user-dsn and point to the database downloaded in 2.
  4. Name the user-dsn file e.g. “KiCad_DB” and write this name into the .kicad_dbl file (“dsn”: “KiCad_DB”)
  5. Create an entry in KiCad Symbol Editor pointing at the .kicad_dbl file
  6. Profit
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