With .lbr file I meant what Benjamin Nauck explained above. A file that has 4 things: the layout of physical pads of components' pads for the PCB, the schematic of the component, the mapping of physical pads to schematic pins and some metadata.
For example, a device looks like this (pin mapping not shown, other 3 are shown). [image: Inline image 1] -- Daniel Wilches On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 6:38 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com> wrote: > By lbr file do you mean schematic component libraries or board footprint > libraries? If you mean component libraries than Nick's comments apply > and the schematic plugin doesn't exist yet but is part of the current > development cycle. If you mean footprint libraries, then they have not > been implemented yet. See the commented out section at the bottom of > pcbnew/eagle_plugin.cpp for the plugin functions that need to be > implemented to support handling eagle footprint libraries. > > On 4/7/2016 9:28 PM, Daniel Wilches wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I noticed that to use Eagle's lbr files in Kicad we need to export them > > from eagle using an ulp (https://github.com/lachlanA/eagle-to-kicad). > > > > I think it would be beneficial to have Kicad read directly the > > lbr files, as that saves time to the user and doesn't require the user > > to have Eagle. But I wonder if it is not done due to some licensing > issues. > > > > I'm posting this to the developers list as I'm not aware if someone is > > working on something like that, and if nobody knows of it and is a > > desired feature then I could help developing it. > > > > Regards. > > > > -- > > Daniel Wilches > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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