What you are saying is a little bit confusing, due I guess to however the part was created.
Assuming that your module is called connect: Kicad uses the following files. connect.mod This is the actual module, open it with a text editor and you will see all the info, drawing commands and such like. This is the ONLY file that you actually need. connect.dcm This is a document file that describes the module. Not often seen in 3rd party modules, use it or not the choice is yours. It provides addition info only This could also be a blank file, again check with a text editor. connect.brd This is a standard PCB Board file. Again it's text based as are all kicad files, so you can check it out with a text editor. The point about providing board files is that you can use dummy boards to store and organise your modules, and from a board you can create or update the modules. (you use the archive commands on the file menu to do this) If you dig around in the standard kicad module directories you will find similar board files. These are what you print out as module documentation. Have a good read of the pcbnew documentation pcbnew > help > contents See section 11 generally, and 11.11 in particular. Assuming that the mod file is correct, all you need to do is copy it into one of your module directories, and make sure that your project can see it. Use preferences > library to check and if necessary add. Watch out for silly things like duplicate names and so on. If the mod file is dud, load up the brd file into pcbnew, then open the module editor and get the module from the board. >From there you can save it into a module directory or export it and so on. Remember that you need to make sure that your PROJECT can see the necessary locations for libs and mods, especially if you are placing them in your own directories (as you should be). Such additions are NOT carried over to new projects unless you replace the default template. So from here it looks like you have a couple of chances to get the module, either via the mod file directly, or from the board file. Whoever has created the mod seems to have done a reasonable job. Hope that clears things up a bit for you. If you get stuck, feel free to contact me off list, and I'll be happy to try importing your module into my system to see if it works. Andy On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:51:02 -0000 "john_henn...@bellsouth.net" <john_henn...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > 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 > > >
