On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 19:18 -0400, Vincent Onelli wrote: > I apologies for my ignorance, I am not sure that I enter the info > correctly. Here what I did: File -> Preference -> Library, then entered > ~/geda/pcb-elements, which is my footprint directory but nothing has > changed anywhere. I also fallowed the example given in the preference -> > library, no change ether. what am I doing wrong? > Vinny
>From PCB library dialog: Elements should be organized into subdirectories... >From the thread I mentioned: http://archives.seul.org/geda/user/Sep-2009/msg00167.html >After using the "Files/Preferences/Library" dialog, you should create >one or more sub-directories under /home/comp/pwb_footprints and place >your footprints in them. On the footprint selection dialog, the >sub-directories should be visible on the left pane, with the >corresponding footprints on the right pane. >Cesar So give "~/geda/pcb-elements" and put your footprints in subdirectories inside of this directory. Or try "~/geda", so that pcb-elements is one of your subdirectories. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user