/kicad-footprints-handmade

My collection of footprints made for Kicad

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Sporniket's handmade footprints for Kicad

[WARNING] Please read carefully this note before using this project. It contains important facts.

Content

  1. What is Sporniket's handmade footprints for Kicad, and when to use it ?
  2. What should you know before using Sporniket's handmade footprints for Kicad ?
  3. How to use Sporniket's handmade footprints for Kicad ?
  4. Known issues
  5. Miscellanous

1. What is Sporniket's handmade footprints for Kicad, and when to use it ?

Sporniket's handmade footprints for Kicad is my collection of footprints to be used with Kicad.

Licence

Sporniket's handmade footprints for Kicad is marked with CC0 1.0 Universal. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0

Sporniket's handmade footprints for Kicad is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

2. What should you know before using Sporniket's handmade footprints for Kicad ?

Footprints of Sporniket's handmade footprints for Kicad are made using Kicad itself.

Most are created from the ground up, some are originally builtin footprints from Kicad that I edited to suit my needs.

E.g. the footprint for non-standard sub-d 19 pins connector is created from a sub-d 25pins footprint, edited to keep 19 pins and the big vias for the connector posts beeing adjusted, and remove the drawings that do not fit anymore.

Another example, I just renamed the pin name '0' into 'SH' to match the pin names of the builtins symbols of Kicad for generic shielded connectors.

  • commons-xxx libraries are footprints for standard components, like resistors and SIMM memory modules.
  • atari-xxx libraries are footprints for components found specifically inside computers and game consoles manufactured by a company named 'Atari' during the period 1970~2000 (approximative). The 'Atari' brand of this manufacturer company is still alive to this day, not the company that manufactured said game consoles and computers.

Do not use Sporniket's handmade footprints for Kicad if this project is not suitable for your project.

3. How to use Sporniket's handmade footprints for Kicad ?

From source, outside of your Kicad project folder

To get the latest available models, one must clone the git repository.

git clone https://github.com/sporniket/kicad-footprints-handmade.git

Then, the Kicad project must be configured to find those models.

From source, inside of a Kicad project folder tracked by git

To make a Kicad project easily clonable, one solution would be to clone Sporniket's handmade footprints for Kicad directly inside the project folder.

If the project is already inside a git repository, clone Sporniket's handmade footprints for Kicad as a submodule.

cd .../your/kicad/project/folder
git submodule add https://github.com/sporniket/kicad-footprints-handmade

See the git page on submodule to get at ease with this kind of use.

4. Known issues

See the project issues page.

5. Miscellanous

Report issues

Use the project issues page.