/kicad-symbols-handmade

My collection of handmade symbols for Kicad

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Sporniket's handmade symbols for Kicad

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

Content

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

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

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

Licence

Sporniket's handmade symbols 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 symbols 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 symbols for Kicad ?

Symbols of Sporniket's handmade symbols for Kicad are made using Kicad itself.

They are builtins symbols that I edited to suit my needs.

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

3. How to use Sporniket's handmade symbols 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-symbols-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 symbols for Kicad directly inside the project folder.

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

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