(Newbie) Footprint question

[Rene_Poschl]

@Mausam

Furthermore, I read on some other thread that the pin headers are called connectors.But which ones have the same footprint as these female header pins: Straight Header - Female (PTH, 0.1in., 40-Pin) - SparkFun Electronics

Look in the Pin_Headers or Socket_Strip library.
If you don’t have them:
open pcb_new
go to preferences->footprint library wizard
Select github repository with KiCad EDA · GitHub in the input field
(only select save local copy if you don’t want kicad to download the libs everytime they are needed.)
Press next.
In the next window press select all.
Finish the wizard. (follow the instructions you get there.)

@Mausam

I have completed my schematic drawings and struggling to find right foot prints for the regular chips: LM1117 and LM7805

I looked at the datasheet for LM1117 by ti. http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/lm1117.pdf
Ti produces this chip in 4 different packages:

• SOT-223
• TO-220
• TO-252
• TO-263

We do not know which one you want (or which one is available to you. All of them are somewhere in the library (TO_SOT_Packages_SMD and TO_SOT_Packages_THT)