Request:Quick Access Symbols

[safecv]

Hi,
If you have worked with Proteus software, you must have seen the box on the left side of the page, which is for quick access to symbols without opening the library in the schematic drawing page.
Adding a similar feature to Kicad can increase design speed and convenience!

[paulvdh]

I’m not very familiar with Proteus, but have you ever used Schematic Editor / View / Symbol Library Browser

[safecv]

thank you sir,
I tried the library browser, and it was a useful feature.
But it lists all the parts in the library and causes confusion

[jmk]

Have you created personal libraries with symbols and footprints you commonly use?

[safecv]

Thanks Sir, No, I just built libraries for certain parts that are not in the Kicad library itself.

[ML9104]

@safecv

No, I just built libraries for certain parts that are not in the Kicad library itself.

Making personal libraries is easy, and saves you a lot of time in the future. Also, you cannot modify the standard libraries.
I understand that you’re overwhelmed with the amount of parts available in the supplied libraries. I was myself in the beginning.

But copying a standard library to your own library location and modifying it is easy.
As an example: this is my “Device” library:

Short and easy to find a part, no?

There is more information in the FAQs.

KiCad 7 & 8 Beginners Guide to Personal Symbol and Footprint Libraries

KiCAD is supplied with extensive Symbol and Footprint (and 3D, not addressed here) libraries. These are fine for simple, initial use, but inflexible due to their being “read-only”. KiCAD also, on installation, creates the default libraries and their paths in the “system/program” area of your system, This means those Kicad default libraries will be overwritten whenever an update or re-installation is made. Because of the above limitations, Personal Libraries are required to store, save and us…

KiCad 7 Tips 'n Tricks when making Personal Symbol Libraries

This FAQ also works for KiCAD 6. 6/7 library formats are the same This FAQ relates to: Kicad 7 Beginners Guide to Personal Symbol and Footprint Libraries Please use that as the main reference Getting Started Creating your first own KiCAD libraries is simple: The key is: “Use and modify what’s already there”… meaning the standard libraries. There are two basic ways of going about this: 1: Copy a standard library to your own library and hide/delete symbols you don’t need. 2: Create an emp…

[retiredfeline]

Another thing you can do is disable libraries you are unlikely to use, to reduce the clutter.

[safecv]

Yes, if it is not possible to request in the next version of Kicad, I will probably do the same thing.
Thank you.

[safecv]

I only disabled a few libraries that I didn’t need, like the FPGA library.