| ID: | 4692 |
| From: | rn...@igor2.repo.hu |
| Date: | Tue, 26 Jan 2021 04:53:55 +0100 (CET) |
| Subject: | Re: [pcb-rnd] Kicad Import |
| in-reply-to: | 4688 from smilie <sm...@posteo.de> |
On Mon, 25 Jan 2021, smilie wrote: >Thanks, igor. > >So i have to manipulate some Foofprints first? >Is there aome thing to do, before i can import? If you mean you are importing the schematics... Yes, the same rules apply as with any other shcematics: the schematics will name some footprints and pcb-rnd will look for files with matching file names in your library. When you draw a schematics with the intention of using pcb-rnd for the layout, it's easy, you just choose footprint names by looking at your pcb-rnd footprint library. When you import from a random schematics that was originally designed for a different footprint library (some kicad lib in your case), it needs an extra step. What you could do is one of these: 1. Change footprint names in the schematics to match the ones you want to use in pcb-rnd 2. With your specific workflow you are lucky: pcb-rnd can load kicad footprints! So if you download the original footprint lib they used with kicad, put it in a directory tree somewhere on your file system and configure pcb-rnd to use that dir in the library path, you can work with the original footprints they worked with! (If you find any kicad footprint that doesn't load, please make a bugreport with the specific footprint!) 3. If you are not on windows, you could use symlinks to make a translation table: create a new directory on your file system, configure pcb-rnd to use it on the library path. Then if the schematics names footprint foo that you don't have but you know your footprint file bar.lht is the same thing, then just create a symlink under that new dir so that foo.lht -> /full/path/to/bar.lht. Then re-scan your lib (File menu, maintanance, re-scan footprint library). Note: with any serious file system and VCS combo you will be able to store and maintin your symlink translation lib - as long as you never want to check it out on weak file systems (e.g. on windows). HTH, Igor2
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