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ebastler / marbastlib

A library collecting MX and Choc style footprints, as well as various other parts used to design custom keyboards
CERN Open Hardware Licence Version 2 - Permissive
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Choc .kicad_sym file not present in Untested branch? #1

Closed fatihG closed 2 years ago

fatihG commented 2 years ago

I tried to add the library files to KiCad after following the instructions on how to add the submodule.

After I did all the steps I was unable to locate the symbol library for the choc components. The MX and Various .kicad_sym files are present and I am able to add those to KiCad.

Since I am planning on using chocs for my board, I figured using that library would be the easier option.

ebastler commented 2 years ago

The only symbol I have in the mx.kicad_sym is a symbol for the stabilizers - I usually just use generic kicad pushbotton symbols for key switches, that's why the chocs don't have a dedicated symbol lib.

fatihG commented 2 years ago

Makes sense.

I am very noob to all this PCB stuff, I forgot you had to manually assign footprints to symbols.

ebastler commented 2 years ago

I decided to follow up on your suggestion and make both choc and MX symbol libs, with a few symbols with pre-assigned footprints as alternatives to kicad default symbols for a faster workflow. I'll close this issue once I found the time to add those.

ebastler commented 2 years ago

This has been addressed, together with some other issues, in today's patch. Thanks for pointing it out! If you want to update to the latest lib: git submodule update --remote, but watch out as it introduced some other changes as well (Mainly all hotswap and reverse mount LED footprints are now flipped, and must manually be flipped back).