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[Alejandro Méndez A. <twistx77@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ok,

I will do that in a new post with another title so it is easy to find.

I could make a video since I already have a youtube channel with plenty of
visits but I'm not a native English speaker so I think it might be better
just to keep the written version :)

In fact I've been doing a tutorial for Kicad in Spanish but I haven't
finished since the last changes for KiCad have changed a lot in PCBNew and
Library and I'm thinking of redoing the first ones with a newer version of
KiCad including the new features of PCBNew. Should I keep waiting a little
longer for more big changes?

I'll try to make a useful post for the environment variables and how to use
them to be able to work with Kicad seamlessly in different platforms.

Last but not least. I think there is already work being done with the
libraries but I think that it would be really good for KiCad to have a very
large contributive components library since most "hobbiest" users don't
wan't to make their own parts and people like me that are freelance or work
for small companies will use already created components when they come from
a "respectable" source. I spend a lot of time creating my own footprints
and I've found that the best library out there in my opinion is this one:
http://smisioto.no-ip.org/elettronica/kicad/kicad-en.htm . Is anyone
working on doing some sort of collaborative library where people could
create components and by users votes have the components validate
them-selves?
I know a little about the github "official" library for KiCad and also I
know of a web that is doing that for three differents packages (KiCad
included), it is called CircuitHub. It is a great idea but they try to
cover too much, at least for now, in my opinion. You can create the
components in their web, et cetera. I've tried it and I've even talked to
one of the founders for support, since there are many things that don't
work right yet and they make it basically unusable at the end. They've told
me they are working on it, but it have passed at least 6 months and they
have added other things but the component creation part is still not
working right. To the point of not even been able to create new schematic
symbols.

Anyway, I just want to know if there is somebody working in an idea like
that but just to keep the components, not creating them in the web since I
could help creating components and a system to let people create components
to share, following a common criteria which could give some security to the
people wanting to use them.

BTW, sorry for the long boring reply.




2014-03-17 18:57 GMT+01:00 Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

> On 03/17/2014 12:27 PM, Alejandro Méndez A. wrote:
> > Hi Dick,
> >
> > I already fixed it, I had a problem with the environment variable which
> in Linux you can
> > set it just for one user and I'm new to Linux.
> >
> > Now, if you can tell me where to write a little guide on how to do it, I
> will gladly do
> > it. If there is no such a place, I would just send it to the mailing
> list where someone
> > might find it.
>
>
> User's (yahoo) Mailing list is helpful!  TIA for that.
>
> It would be good if you actually re-enforce the *concept* of what you are
> trying to do,
> not simply state how to set the environment variable.  The fact that it
> allowed you to
> achieve a single data file which is applicable across platforms, that is
> the concept.
>
> It was in your original posting, but I would bring it into your summary
> posting.
>
> Eventually, if somebody can make videos that help users, that will help
> users.  I suppose
> we can link to good videos from the website.
>
> I think people struggle more with the concept of what the environment
> variable is doing,
> than they struggle with how to set it.  You at least saw this concept, and
> it puts you at
> the head of the class.
>
> If you tell them only how to set it, next thing they'll ask is what
> variable do I set?
>
> It would be best if you *invent* your own environment variable, and use
> that in your write
> up.  Like FPBASEDIR or something like that, anything meaningful.  And more
> than one is OK.
>
> We actually use ${MY_LIBS} for our personal libraries, and put them on a
> network drive in
> pretty format, so that's where MY_LIBS points.
>
> You can do the same with environment variables for the paths to the 3D
> models.
>
>
>
> I will not be visiting the user's mailing list anymore, so your help is
> appreciated.
>
>
>
>


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