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Schematic diagram project project independent component library

Asked by zhqsoft

If kicad can configure an exclusive component library for schematic engineering, that's best. The components selected from the user library in the schematic diagram are put into the special library of the proje ct, and linked to the special library, so that I can move the project to other computers can edit and modify the schematic diagram, very convenient.

Now the problem is that I copy to other computers, if other computers do not install a complete user library, then th e copy of the engineering schematic can only be viewed and can not be modified, which is quite inconvenient. (Because the user library is called, the schematic can't be viewed as long as it has been modified on a computer wit hout the corresponding library.)

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Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw) said : 		#1

Eeschema only links to the symbols in the cache library when the original library symbols cannot be found. The cache library cannot and should not be edited. It is there as a fallback for missing library symbols. If you want to modify the existing symbols, the best way to do this to copy the cache library file to a new name and add it to the project symbol library table so you can edit the symbols in the schematic as long as you copy the new library to other computers.

This will all go away once the new schematic file format is written because symbols will be embedded in the schematic itself and no external libraries will be necessary to modify the schematic.

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zhqsoft (zhqsoft) said : 		#2

Instead of caching libraries, you need a separate LIB that stores components so that schematics are completely detached from the computer's user component library. The problem now is that my own component library needs to modify the components frequently, and the problem is that the schematics of the previous project will change accordingly.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#3

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