KiCad Library management with Git submodules
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- Опубліковано 23 лип 2024
- #kicad #git #submodule
Sharing a common KiCad library consisting of symbols and footprints becomes easy with git submodules. That also allows version tracking and updating across various projects.
⏰ TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
2:40 Add Digikey KiCad library as a git submodule
3:26 Add a path to project-specific symbol libraries
7:18 Add a path to project-specific footprint libraries
🎩 DEMO FILES
Example of git submodule github.com/hutscape/palm/tree...
github.com/hutscape/cactus/tr...
🔗 LINKS SHOWN
Piotr’s Talk at KiCon 2019 • "From Idea To Producti...
Piotr’s slides kicad-kicon.com/wp-content/up...
KiCad’s own library for symbols github.com/KiCad/kicad-symbols
KiCad’s own library for footprints github.com/KiCad/kicad-footpr...
Digikey KiCad symbol and footprint library github.com/Digi-Key/digikey-k...
KiCad’s own library for 3D packages github.com/KiCad/kicad-packag...
KiCad variable KIPRJMOD docs.kicad-pcb.org/5.1.2/fr/ki...
Datasheet for flip flop www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/cd40...
🔌 TOOLS USED
hutscape.com/tools - Наука та технологія
Git submodule is one of the lesser known git features that everyone should know. I think you are doing it exactly right. Good video.
Excellent! Excellent Video as well. Exactly what I was looking for. Subscribed.
wow. this is a really good strategy. thanks for making this video!
excellent tutorial!
Thanks. Very helpful.
You lost me🤣. This is a very organized instructional video and I am very impressed, thank you! It has a little bit of learning for a simple-minded guy like me and it is really nice to have your help😁. I am after industrial electrical process automation such as contactors, relays, inductive and capacitive sensors, and I/O modules similar to PLC's. I am having some trouble finding any of these. Do you know of any libraries for this type of work? Thank you very much!
Unfortunately, I think for really specific industrial components, we might have created the symbols and footprints ourselves.
Try DigiKey libraries, www.snapeda.com/ or Altium.
very helpful
Great explanation. I am having trouble understanding what word you are saying when you are talking about the commit identifiers - it sounds like you are calling them "shou-in". What word are you saying?
I guess I meant SHA-1 as the commit ID: git-scm.com/docs/hash-function-transition/
How do I change my directory structure to find a schematic I designed in another directory structure?
I simply locate the KiCad file *.pro from the folders in the respective operating system and double-click it to open in KiCad. Is this what you are looking for?
@@sayanee I found it eventually. Ty. In the main KiCad window, "open existing project" and changed the Dir from there.
Can you SHOW me how to start off with the ground plane first, on the pcb? ALL on one side of the pcb! No one can make a video and show me how to do this. Is it that hard to do? The circuit has 50 components.
Robert Feranec has some nice videos on power planes. Checkout his channel: ua-cam.com/users/RobertFeranecvideos
E.g. This video "How To Improve Your PCB Layout - Power Planes" ua-cam.com/video/bU2Ef-2ZIK4/v-deo.html