> you won't have access to the footprints you had previously used. You can make a project-local library and export the old footprints to it if desired. I think that is a reasonable workflow.
On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 1:40 PM Steven A. Falco <stevenfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/3/22 12:11 PM, Jon Evans wrote: > > KiCad 6.x should still be able to open these files even if they used old > symbols and footprints. I'm not sure they would need "porting" other than > saving in the updated format. New schematics can be made with new > symbols/footprints as desired. > > True, but if you have to modify an old design, when you go to assign > footprints to substituted parts, you won't have access to the footprints > you had previously used. In at least one case I ran into, the new > footprint was larger, even though the part would have fit just fine with > the older footprint. I had to grab a copy of the old footprint from an > archive to avoid laying out that area of the board again. > > I'm not saying it is impossible, but it can add extra work. I guess it > really depends on what folks need to do with their old designs. > > I keep VMs of older copies of Fedora so I can run older versions of KiCad > (and even Eagle on very rare occasions) if needed. Fortunately, it doesn't > happen often in my case. > > Steve > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "KiCad Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to devlist+unsubscr...@kicad.org. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/530b7965-8251-481c-b1a5-594f3e8d67ca%40gmail.com > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "KiCad Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to devlist+unsubscr...@kicad.org. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/CA%2BqGbCBqasTvuwV0O8c%3DmdGWN7Z8rwWh72ELgrr6RGsbDUAjwg%40mail.gmail.com.
