Re: [Slackbuilds-users] KiCad not loading symbols

2022-05-08 Thread Daniel Prosser
Hi Tim, I think the trick was that I had to delete ~/.config/kicad, and then the next time I started it up, it gave me the option to copy over the global symbols table. Thanks for the pointers! Dan On 5/8/22 03:02, Tim Dickson via SlackBuilds-users wrote: Hi Dan, when you first run kicad

Re: [Slackbuilds-users] KiCad not loading symbols

2022-05-08 Thread Tim Dickson via SlackBuilds-users
Hi Dan, when you first run kicad you need to create a project (this is directory and main file). then you need to start with the schematic editor, and kicad will ask for the locations of the files, giving you the option to copy the default global symbol table, which you should do (because the

[Slackbuilds-users] KiCad not loading symbols

2022-05-07 Thread Daniel Prosser
Hello, Hopefully someone knows something about KiCad and can tell me what I'm doing wrong. I am a complete novice trying to learn how to use it. I installed it from SBo along with all dependencies as well as most of the extra packages (kicad-symbols, kicad-templates, kicad-footprints,