KiCad 7 Parts Database Setup

[@bit0fun]

A year later and this is still the best tutorial for setting up a database library

[@heinzkreutziger2218]

Interesting video. I have done such work for Altium with MS Access. Good to see that Kicad also support DB connection. This really helps to move kicad to professional users. Still you need a lot of single steps and it would be good to have tools to simplify the process.

[@cwbh10]

Thanks for making a proper tutorial for this dude! Super helpful, I really appreciate it and hope more people see how awesome this feature is

[@TegFilatov]

I need to try! This is currently my biggest issue with KiCad vs Altium. In my former company i've set a PGsql database of components I had in the laboratory. (and when I left tey gave me half of this stock :) ) And it was very handy to use on schematic components i actually had in stock or know. Knowing its price, order reference on Farnell or Digikey. With KiCad currently I'm losing so much time consolidating every design BOM. So sure I will try to convert my old PGsql databse for KiCad and manage footprints with git. Thank you!

[@TheEngineeringExperienceYT]

I have no idea about databases so will need to take a few steps back but thank you!

[@DIYPlace_Create_your_World]

Cool Feature, i must try it now :-) Thanks for your Video!

[@pkilo2811]

Awesome... thanks loads. I will try with MySQL

[@Jacos7rid3RduPreez]

How do you link multiple symbols and footprints to one part?

[@maykol-rey]

I tried it today. It still doesn't convince me. but it has potential...

[@byronwatkins2565]

Perhaps one day it will be useful. Presently, individuals seldom have an online database. Additionally, requiring the part definition to be local is of little help regarding any share between peers or even office, home, or business trip. It would be FAR more useful to allow users to share their custom components with all KiCad users and to streamline selecting (and remembering) preferences from this community. It is counterproductive to legislate "thou shalt use these" incomplete and error-filled libraries because we said so.

[@cwbh10]

It's pretty useful. I worked a lot with database libraries in my previous job and I was super excited to see the feature added to KiCAD. Maintaining your libraries in Git is pretty useful and being able to make many new components by reusing symbols and footprints with this linking method is quite powerful. It could be neat to also store these in a database that is remote but I imagine the internal work to KiCAD to support this would be rather challenging. It is open source though if you want to take a stab at it!

[@ore22]

This is probably THE addition which has a really significant impact for teams. Libraries are still stored in GIT but now there is a parts database which enables reusability and links symbol and footprint together. This is THE main feature we've been using in Altium designer as a team of 10.

[@byronwatkins2565]

@@cwbh10 I am not enough of a "programmer" to understand their code. I can donate a little money and tell them what I dislike, however, and the lack of a decent library plus the inability to compose one myself makes using KiCAD unpleasant and unproductive. Even the components I have composed using previous versions are no longer compatible making that wasted effort.

[@saphicals]

clicked on the ad by accident and no one cares btw