Hi @ all,
after reading an article in RaspberryPi Geek-Magazine I wanted to try KiCAD - esp. for drawing schematics. Installation seemed to run flawless.
When I want to add a symbol of a resistor or capacitor … there is no such symbol in the library. I only have a few 4xxx, 74xx, diodes, LEDs … In /usr/share/kicad/library I have 380 items (from kicad-symbols-5.0.2, which I downloaded) including 3 directories. I also don’t have any footprints
Hi Seth_h,
where do I find the device-library? I click on the icon “Place symbol” in the right bar and when I click in the drawing, a window “Choose Symbo (2181 Symbols loaded)l” opens. as mentioned above, there are some symbols there, but not resistors, caps…
How do I install the footprints? Download them, unzip and copy into /usr/share/kicad/library ???
If you select “Einstellungen -> Verwalten Symbolbibliotheken” you should see the list of your libraries. These are chosen from ~/.config/kicad/sym-lib-table. Perhaps the “Device” library has the “Aktive” checkmark off?
Thank you Rene!
I did completely uninstall the program, deleted the folders in my home and in usr…
Then I did a new install in a terminal, using apt-get install and installing all recommended packages too. Then I started Kicad and clicked on Symbol Library Editor. This time could select the recommended “Copy default global symbols…” in the window “Configure Global Symbol Library Table”.
Maybe it didn’t work in the first place, because I have started eeschema before starting Kicad and therefore I was not able to set up the Library table ??
Now it works and I have to thank you guys for your help.
Best, Karl