Creating symbol in My Library

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Hello,

I’m new to librepcb. Got it installed, downloaded libraries and managed to get a project started and a few things added to the schematic out of the read only libraries. Now I need to create a 16 pin IC that’s not in the libraries. Copied a generic 8 pin ic into My_library, used ‘find in file manager’ to locate the directory for the symbol and copied that directory into the symbol directory as “generic 16 pin ic”. Edited the .lp file so that “librepcb_symbol” and “name” were the same name as the directory name. Re scanned the libraries and went looking for my new symbol in “My_lib..” so I could edit it into 16 pins. It is not there. Closed and restarted Librepcb, still not there. What went wrong?

Is there a better way to do this because I’m going to have to do pretty much the same thing to create the symbol for my specific IC?

Thank You,

Craig

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Hi @craigm,

Please really don’t do anything manually on the files, without knowing exactly what you’re doing it will end up with big problems :slightly_smiling_face:

The way to do it is actually very simple. In the library editor you just start creating a new library element (in your “My Library”):

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But then you choose “Copy from existing element”. Everything else should be self-explaining then. Just let me know if something is not clear.

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Yep, that was simple. I was cheating and right clicking in the box for symbol and that took me directly to entering data in “category” so there was never the option for new or copy.

ThankYou

Craig

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