As soon as I have the rough draft completed, I will post a link to it
for review before I commit it.
On 6/18/2018 9:09 AM, Rene Pöschl wrote:
> Another pitfall seems to be that users do not expect that they need to
> update their fp-lib-table after installing kicad 5.
>
> Either they need to
Another pitfall seems to be that users do not expect that they need to
update their fp-lib-table after installing kicad 5.
Either they need to update the fp-lib-table to get the footprint library
to the state of v5 or they would need to manually install the version 4
symbol and 3d model libs
Please link to it from the symbol remapping dialogs so that it can be found.
Also, if there will be long form documentation in the user manual, the
Remap symbols dialog info can be cleaned to something like:
"""
Symbol look up has changed and symbols must be remapped.
Backups of will be
Perfect. It would be good if we move the "migrating from old stable" and
somehow mark it as "almost certainly not applicable anymore" or maybe just
delete it.
Adam
On Sun, Jun 17, 2018, 12:05 PM Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> Adam,
>
> AFAIK, there is not an upgrading reference but we should
Adam,
AFAIK, there is not an upgrading reference but we should probably create
one. Since the biggest change that has the potential to confuse users
is the symbol remapping, I will write a short document and add it to the
end of the KiCad users manual.
Cheers,
Wayne
On 06/17/2018 12:03 PM,
Hi folks!
Do we have a good reference for users upgrading from V4 to V5, telling
them any important precautions they'll need to take, and maybe even
what they can expect to be different? I would love to help to write
this for V6 but for V5 I am too swamped with macOS (but still
optimistic we can
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