• Using a Custom Library

Having Learned of KiCad recently, and with my alma matter killing student emails for alumni, I felt it was time to move away from EagleCAD. The KiCAD UI is intimidating, opening it up for the first time.

I couldn’t find these instructions quickly enough, so hopefully search engine web scraping is powerful enough to save other people 40 or so minutes it took me to figure this out.

These instructions may work for linux

Using a Custom Library

KiCad by default saves user files to C:\Users\[your name]\Documents\KiCad\6.0, or similar I’ve Created a folder libraries in said directory, and put my libraries in it, I’m using jdunmire’s ESP8266 library

Select the preferences in the top bar

Select Manage Symbol Libraries

Then Global Libraries tab

Then the Folder Icon(Add existing library from file)

Then locate the .lib file for the library you want to add and click ok

Hopefully, Sucess!

Very Cool

Now… back to actually trying to get work done on projects…