Chapter 6. Make schematic components in KiCad

Chapter 6. Make schematic components in KiCad

Sometimes a component that you want to place on your schematic is not in a KiCad library. This is quite normal and there is no reason to worry. In this section we will see how a new schematic component can be quickly created with KiCad. Nevertheless, remember that you can always find KiCad components on the Internet. For instance from here:

http://per.launay.free.fr/kicad/kicad_php/composant.php

In KiCad, a component is a piece of text that starts with a DEF and ends with ENDDEF. One or more components are normally placed in a library file with the extension .lib. If you want to add components to a library file you can just use the cut and paste commands.