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Re: Adding my new libararies to kicad

 

Thank You Wayne Stambaugh, It worked.  And yes hence forth i will post my
queries to
http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/kicad-users/info.


On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On 1/24/2014 5:26 AM, Oscad Team wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have built some new kicad libraries and i wanted to make them part of
> > kicad main libraries permanently to avoid manual adding of the libraries
> > every time i open kicad.
> >
> >  In-fact i tried to copy my library files into the
> > /usr/share/kicad/libraries folder in my linux ubuntu system but still i
> > am not able to access these new libraries inside EESchema editor.
> >
> >
> > Can any one please suggest me how to do it.
> >
> > Thank You
> > Shambhu
> >
>
> You must add your new component libraries to your project file.  This is
> documented in the Eeschema Reference Manual section 3.2.3.  If you want
> to use these libraries automatically whenever you start a new project,
> you must modify the /use/share/kicad/template/kicad.pro file by adding
> your custom libraries to the "LibName##" entry (where ## is the next
> available number) in the "[eeschema/libraries]" section of the file.
> You will need root access to modify this file.
>
> For future reference, please direct user related questions to the KiCad
> User's Group at http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/kicad-users/info.
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