SPICE/ngspice, How to Create/Manage a User Model Library?

Schematic Simulation (Ngspice)
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I’d like to have my own library of SPICE models in one place/directory tree. This is from a file management point of view no problem, and I have that.
But working with KiCAD, it’s a big pain in the a…
For every device in a design, I need to click through endless paths to get to my library and load the model.
I tried adding the environmet variable KICAD_USER_SPICE_DIR, which works, but cannot be connected to the schematic editor in any way (would have been a nice solution, especially as KICAD_USER_SYMBOL_DIR, which is undocumented, works).
Being able to set a default location for the SPICE models would be nice.

How do you deal with this? Did you find a sane solution somehow? Any feedback is appreciated.
Thanks.

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That’s what I’ve been doing until now, but it’s kludgy and inefficient. That the models should be stored with the project is good, but getting them there is the issue.
I can do it with a file manager, but it’s a lot of copying back-and-forth.
But OK, seems there’s no other way.
Thanks.

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