> 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 <[email protected]> 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 [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/CA%2BqGbCBqasTvuwV0O8c%3DmdGWN7Z8rwWh72ELgrr6RGsbDUAjwg%40mail.gmail.com.
