The symbol library table is not in play yet. It will be soon. You should continue to use the current schematic symbol library path search until then.
On 3/16/2017 9:37 AM, Ingo Kletti wrote: > Hello all > > and sorry for pushing this to the dev mailing list, but I hope to get an > authoritative answer from you: > > > I am preparing the update from KiCad 4.0.4 to 4.0.6 on the approximately > 70 PCs used in our classroom installations (all Windows 7 64 Bit). > > We are using a centrally managed library for schematic symbols and pcb > footprints which is stored on a network share. > > To make that work, the paths in the 'kicad.pro' template file and the > environment variables KICAD_PTEMPLATES KISYSMOD and KISYS3DMOD are > modified to point to the correct network share folders. > > My test install shows that for schematic symbols a new file > 'sym_lib_table' has been introduced, analog to 'fp_lib_table' for > footprints. In that file a variable 'KICAD_SYS_SYMBOL_DIR' is used for > path declaration, but the corresponding environment variable is not set > during the installation process. > > Is there any value in setting the environment variable > 'KICAD_SYS_SYMBOL_DIR' (like Kicad using it if it is set, otherwise it > uses the legacy kicad.pro definitions) or should I even expect > interferences with the path declaration from the 'kicad.pro' template > when 'KICAD_SYS_SYMBOL_DIR' is set? > > Regards, > > Ingo > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
