Hey folks, brand new to KiCad. I am working on a DB9 to DB36 serial to parallel circuit but cannot find a DB36 type connector symbol anywhere. I see a DB37?
Cheers
Dukester
What you’re looking for is probably a Centronics 36-pole connector. No idea if it’s in the (miserable) KiCAD library.
Yes, that’s the one I need. Thought it would be in the D-sub library but alas not.
See this document, an unusual pitch 2.16 mm
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Miserable? I have found it fairly well provided for and of high quality. Probably more importantly, it is easy to make new symbols and footprints.
The librarians are a very small team and have prioritised quality over quantity. Would you rather have more symbols/footprints but find they frequently have errors?
You do know that you can import Eagle components and also SnapEDA provide a KiCad format download?
If you have produced your own symbols and footprints and providing they are KLC compliant, you can submit a pull request to merge them into the libraries for others to benefit from and grow the library. Perhaps if more people did this you wouldn’t consider the !library so miserable?
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Do you need a symbol or a footprint? If a symbol, then how about conn_02x18_Top_Bottom. As for the footprint, it probably depends on the model you have or plan to buy.
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Yes, miserable.
Contrary to your assertion, the symbol libraries in KiCAD are bloated with lots of exotic/unnecessary stuff, whereas central libraries like 7400 are full of mistakes and omissions.
Yes, I make my own libraries, and it’s not that hard, but it shouldn’t really be necessary for standard stuff.
To my mind, the whole GitHub/GitLab thing with it’s pull/push/shove/stick it up your… is a total mistake, which will encourage no one but software geeks (who know very little about electronics engineering) to participate.
The right approach IMO would be a submission site/page to upload new libraries, that then will be vetted/approved by an Editor-in-Chief or an editorial team.
I know that the “Boss” approach is unpopular in FOSS, but sometimes it’s necessary. Just look at the success of (x)Ubuntu as compared to other distributions.
BTW: try to find a correct symbol for 74HC73 (not exactly an exotic part). It ain’t there.
That’s a cool find, thanks!
Just a symbol for now. I pretty much had my own drawn out in the symbol editor when I saw your idea. That will work just fine for what I am doing. Thanks!
In addition: one can open altium (not just eagle) design with that symbol or footprint and save that thing into ones own kicad library.
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