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- Click the folder icon (Add existing library to table) in the lower left corner. Download the sparkfun library as described in the tutorial. Back in KiCad, navigate to where you placed the sparkfun library that you downloaded and open the sparkfun library (.lib). Click 'OK' in the Symbols Library.
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- After the library tables are copied or created to the configuration directory, when you open Eeschema - Preferences - Manage Symbol Libraries or Pcbnew - Preferences - Manage Footprint Libraries, you can see in the Global Libraries tab the library table file location and contents. You can see KICADSYMBOLDIR or KISYSMOD used in every line.
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Installing the Mac version of KiCad on Mac OS[edit]
Nightly builds[edit]
Since February 2015, nightly builds of KiCad for Mac OS are available, making the installation process much easier.These nightly builds are available on the KiCad website . As nightly builds, they are the most up-to-date (and may also contain bugs).
'Traditional' install[edit]
First, download the Apple Mac OS version of KiCad from the download page.Also (is this really necessary?) download any Linux version of KiCad (to get documentation, templates, part libraries, etc.)
In the finder window, drag the Mac OS version of KiCad to the 'Applications' on the left sidebar.
Unzip the Linux version of KiCad (creating a folder named 'Kicad'). How to turn off icloud photo library on mac.
From a command prompt (is there a better way?) uncompress the Linux version
tar -xvf kicad_0.2linux.tar.gz
Move the documentation, templates, part libraries, etc. to the appropriate place with(this never worked; what am I really supposed to do?)
cd ~/Library/Application Support/mkdir kicadcd kicadmv ~/Downloads/kicad/kicad/demos .mv ~/Downloads/kicad/kicad-doc/internat .mv ~/Downloads/kicad/kicad-library/library .mv ~/Downloads/kicad/kicad-library/modules .
Then start KiCad.
/Library/Application Support/kicad(for shared libraries among all users), or$HOME/Library/Application Support/kicad(To get your own libraries)
Further reading[edit]
- 'Installing KiCAD on Mac OS X' is a tutorial similar to this one. via adafruit
- 'How to install KiCad on OSX' is a tutorial similar to this one.
- 'Lean Mean Ubuntu Virtual Machine' is a very, very different tutorial: it's a step-by-step tutorial for creating a Linux virtual machine that runs under Mac OS, and then getting KiCad to run inside that virtual machine.
Kicad Macos
- 'KiCad on OSX' mentions another way to install KiCad on OSX
- KiCad: INSTALL.txt has a section on 'Mac OS X KiCad tree'
- 'KiCad OSX Builder on GitHub' is a tool for building a Mac OS version of KiCad from source with the latest cutting-edge nightly updates and whatever special tweaks you want to add. (This tool is really outdated and should only be used on source form mid 2013 and before.)