KiCAD symbols and footprints for Teensy boards

[roncos]

I'm looking for KiCAD files for the Teensy as a component to ease design of larger systems that incorporate the Teensy (as opposed to the files for cloning the Teensy)

I found this repo: https://github.com/XenGi/teensy_library (and also https://github.com/XenGi/teensy.pretty)

When I try to import the symbol library it loads the first one in the library but not the rest. In KiCAD Symbol editor I created a new global library and loaded the .lib file . The "Teensy++" shows up (first board in the .lib file) but the others do not. I tried lots of other ways but that is the only way with partial success, but still not what I need.

What am I doing wrong? I looked in the official documentation but could not find any relevant info.

 

[kd5rxt-mark]

Maybe something here (https://github.com/TeensyUser/doc/wiki/ECAD) might be what you are looking for ??

Mark J Culross
KD5RXT

 

[roncos]

Maybe something here (https://github.com/TeensyUser/doc/wiki/ECAD) might be what you are looking for ??

Thanks @kd5rxt-mark, however those files are the same ones (or similar) to the ones I linked in the original question. There are several forks of the original repo, I will look into who forked from who and what most up to date repo is but that is not the main question.

The main question is what is the proper way to import these files into KiCAD?

 

[thebigg]

In KiCAD Symbol editor I created a new global library and loaded the .lib file .

You should be loading the kicad_sym file.
Excuse the ugly paths in my setup but anyway

This results in the following in the symbol editor

 

[roncos]

Thanks @thebigg, but I dont see any such file in the repo.

 

[thebigg]

This might help

 

[kd5rxt-mark]

Not sure which version of KiCAD you are using (maybe you said, but I missed it). In KiCAD 7.x, to add an existing symbol file, click on "Preferences > Manage Symbol Libraries", click on the "folder" icon at the bottom left ("Add existing library to table"), then pick your "*.keycad_sym" or "*.lib" file as appropriate to add a set of symbols. Similarly, click on "Preferences > Manage Footprint Libraries", click on the "folder" icon at the bottom left ("Add existing"), then pick the folder containing your symbol footprints to be added.

Hope that helps . . .

Mark J Culross
KD5RXT

 

[roncos]

@kd5rxt-mark & @thebigg thank you, both of these methods work.