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I'm just fine with KiCAD itself, my real difficulty with it comes from importing component footprints and symbols. In most of the other eCAD packages, you can c
by Youden 6y ago
I'm just fine with KiCAD itself, my real difficulty with it comes from importing component footprints and symbols. In most of the other eCAD packages, you can click a button, type a part number and download the symbol/footprint in-app.
In KiCAD, I haven't found any easy way to go about it, you always have to download a ZIP file, extract it, point KiCAD to the new symbol library, point KiCAD to the new footprints and match the footprints to the symbols.
Is there any better way of handling this?
- kasbah 6y agoMaybe SnapEDA and their new KiCad plugin [1] would be a good fit for you? I've not used the plugin myself but I do use SnapEDA footprints myself occasionally. I also try and keep on top of all the footprints available on GitHub and add them to our repo [2], you can add this globally and search through it from within KiCad. 1: https://blog.snapeda.com/2020/09/09/introducing-the-snapeda-kicad-plugin/ https://blog.snapeda.com/2020/09/09/introducing-the-snapeda-... 2: https://github.com/kitspace/kicad_footprints https://github.com/kitspace/kicad_footprints