The module was placed in a directory that Kicad knows about (one of the paths point to the directory where the file is). The file I downloaded was a *.mod file...it was the only file given for the part I downloaded. My question, again is: for a given part, how many different files are required to support the part? Three? The connect.mod file resides in the c:\program_files\kicad\share\modules directory. There are two files with the connect.* name - they are: connect.mdc and connect.brd. The error that I was getting specified the *.mdc file and that the program could not find it...I checked the library prefences in eeschema, cvpcb, and pcbnew...they are all set correctly.
--- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, Andy Eskelson <andyya...@...> wrote: > > The most common errors are that people have imported the modult into a > directory that is not part of the libraries that a project knows about. > > > Use preferences > library to select which libs your project will search. > > The second is that when importing into an existing library the final save > is not done. > > Andy > > > > On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:51:57 -0000 > "john_henn...@..." <john_henn...@...> wrote: > > > I recently imported a downloaded connector module (con-headers-jp.mod) into > > the CvPCB footprint library. The footprints assigned without an error, but > > I get an error when I read the netlist into pcbnew. The error says that > > pcbnew cannot find the footprints for the connectors that I am using. When > > I re-run CvPCB, I get an error that the con-headers-jp.mdc cannot be found. > > When importing footprint files, what are all the required file types? > > Looking at the modules subdirectory, it contains *.brd, *.mdc, and *.mod > > files. Are all these necessary for a footpring library? > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Please read the Kicad FAQ in the group files section before posting your > > question. > > Please post your bug reports here. They will be picked up by the creator of > > Kicad. > > Please visit http://www.kicadlib.org for details of how to contribute your > > symbols/modules to the kicad library. > > For building Kicad from source and other development questions visit the > > kicad-devel group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-develYahoo! Groups > > Links > > > > > > >
