Using CvPcb to Associate Components with Footprints

Manually Associating Footprints with Components

To manually associate a footprint with a component first select a component in the component pane. Then select a footprint in the footprint pane by double-clicking the left mouse button on the name of the desired footprint. The unassigned next component in the list is automatically selected. Changing the component footprint is performed in the same manner.

Filtering the Footprint List

If the selected component and/or library is highlighted when the one or more of the filtering options is enabled, the displayed footprint list in CvPcb is filtered accordingly.

The icons module filtered list module pin filtered list module library list enable and disable the filtering feature. When the filtering is not enabled, the full footprint list is shown.

Without filtering:

List without any filter

Filtered by list of footprint filters assigned to the selected component. The component filters are listed on the center pane of the status bar at the bottom of the main window.

Filtered by the footprint filter of the selected component:

List filtered by component

In the component library editor in Eeschema, the footprint list was set using the entries in the footprint filter tab of the component properties dialog as shown below.

Footprint filter in Eeschema

Filtered by the pin count of the selected component:

List filtered by pin count

Filtered by the selected library.

List filtered by library

The filtering can be combined to form more complex filtering to help reduce the number of footprints in the footprint pane.

Filtered by the selected component pin count and the component filter:

List filtered by pin count and component