You used the pspice diode symbol. This one is incompatible with all kicad footprints. (It has the pin numbers assigned to fit the pspice standard instead of the industry standard used for PCB design) Use the D or D_Small symbol from the Device lib instead.
It appears to be a problem with the custom molex footprints I have since opening them in the footprint editor crashes KiCad. Here’s a link to the library: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1D5JAY9rmH7_39_y6sL5k8E-rIvbkAxle
As a curious side note, one of the footprints (Potentiometer TC33X-2-502E.kicad_mod) somehow ended up with a null character (0x00) instead of a dot (0x2E) in the filepath before “kicad_mod”. This had to be changed before zipping the folder since 0x00 is an invalid character for a zip archive… Correcting this character does not help with the crashing.
The I’ve replaced the diodes with D_small
the polyline in the molex footprints seems to crash kicad. https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1833819
Here the fixed footprints (Well they no longer crash kicad. I have not checked them in any other way.):
Molex-4.kicad_mod (941 Bytes)
Molex-8.kicad_mod (1.3 KB)
General remark: You might want to invest a bit more time into footprints. I would suggest to give them more meaningful names (include the order number) and better drawigns on silk and fab. Also include a courtyard area to ensure you leave yourself space to solder. Tutorial: How to make a footprint in KiCad 5.1.x (From scratch)?
Thanks for the help! The new footprints work and I’m now able to import the netlist.
Good point about better naming of the footprints and courtyards. At the moment I don’t have that many custom parts to keep track of but definitely a good idea going forward.
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