Hello everyone, I have a question concerning the management of libraries in Kicad. Since version 5, a tool allows you to manage libraries, for symbols:
Following the projects, we do not systematically need all the libraries and in order to reduce their numbers we can validate or not those that we want to use:
My question: In the example above I don’t need the MCU libraries, rather than tagging each library one by one is there a trick to tag multiple libraries? If not, could we not have a button for multiple marking?
In this example, when you select “Place Symbol”, the list includes ALL libraries, global and specific! Here 3894 articles are loaded … I don’t think I need all these components in my project …
Sure you don’t. None of us do, I think.
It depends of how fast is your computer if it is a matter of delay.
Usually I know which library I need for a given component. And there is also a filter field on top, very useful indeed.
Yes the filters are good. It is not a problem of machine speed, it is just a request to know if something exists because today the libraries are monstrous of resources and for example by marking a group of lines in the editor one clicks or press the space bar to mark or not the libraries that will be used.
