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[Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 04:27:01PM +0200, easyw wrote:
> Hi Marco,
> 
> I still cannot find any mention to the path and any howto to use the
> very useful footprint wizard.
> 
> I went in the .adoc file and the only mention to the wizard I found is in:
> Pcbnew_managing_libs.adoc
> but is a mere description of the wizard button
> Line 74: | image:images/icons/module_wizard.png[]
> Line 75: | Create a module using a wizard
> 
> Please consider that
> === Using the Footprint Library Table Wizard
> is a different (Library) wizard from the footprint wizard I'm
> talking about, which is a wizard to generate a parameter footprint
> with python scripts
> 
> Thank you
> Maurice
> 
> On 24/08/2015 12.05, Marco Ciampa wrote:
> >On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 02:34:11PM +0200, easyw wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I don't know where to place the python plugins file (e.g.
> >>qfp_wizard.py) in windows...
> >>
> >>in linux the right place is ~/.kicad_plugins
> >>but I don't know the right place in windows...
> >>I tried with the Nick pre-built windows files
> >>http://www2.futureware.at/~nickoe/kicad-product-r6097.b384c94-x86_64.exe
> >>putting the script in
> >>C:\KiCad-test\lib\kicad\plugins
> >>but it didn't worked
> >>
> >>I can't find any help in docs...
> >
> >If this is still missing, please file an error report on kicad-doc bug.

Ok.

Who is the main author of the script?
Or, who think has some knowledge to document this feature?

If there is none, please go ahead and file a bug report on kicad-doc.

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Marco Ciampa

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