Make a footprint library?
phil-barrett opened this issue · comments
No problems - it works great. Thanks for your work!
I don't want to design things in easyEDA, I just want to get usable KiCAD footprints from it. So, I make a board with the footprint in easyEDA, convert it to KiCAD with your awesome tool and then extract the footprint. Maybe there's a shortcut way?
You're welcome :)
I guess it should be possible, but unfortunately I do not have the capacity to look into this. Maybe someone else would?
To be fair, I usually make my own footprints or use the KiCAD ones. But unfortunately some datasheets don't have complete footprint data . Connectors DSs often do not say where the center is, for example. Important for pick and place assembly. But somehow, easyEDA footprints have that info. Making a small PCB with the device on it to then export and use KiCAD to create a library entry from it isn't totally horrible.