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[Daniel Wilches <dwilches@xxxxxxxxx>]

With .lbr file I meant what Benjamin Nauck explained above. A file that has
4 things: the layout of physical pads of components'  pads for the PCB, the
schematic of the component, the mapping of physical pads to schematic pins
and some metadata.

For example, a device looks like this (pin mapping not shown, other 3 are
shown).

[image: Inline image 1]

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Daniel Wilches


On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 6:38 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> By lbr file do you mean schematic component libraries or board footprint
> libraries?  If you mean component libraries than Nick's comments apply
> and the schematic plugin doesn't exist yet but is part of the current
> development cycle.  If you mean footprint libraries, then they have not
> been implemented yet.  See the commented out section at the bottom of
> pcbnew/eagle_plugin.cpp for the plugin functions that need to be
> implemented to support handling eagle footprint libraries.
>
> On 4/7/2016 9:28 PM, Daniel Wilches wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I noticed that to use Eagle's lbr files in Kicad we need to export them
> > from eagle using an ulp (https://github.com/lachlanA/eagle-to-kicad).
> >
> > I think it would be beneficial to have Kicad read directly the
> > lbr files, as that saves time to the user and doesn't require the user
> > to have Eagle. But I wonder if it is not done due to some licensing
> issues.
> >
> > I'm posting this to the developers list as I'm not aware if someone is
> > working on something like that, and if nobody knows of it and is a
> > desired feature then I could help developing it.
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> > --
> > Daniel Wilches
> >
> >
> >
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