Hacking the KiCAD Libaray system to be actually useful

[Simon]

I'm confused. I thought you could now specify a footprint in a symbol? Yes footprints and specific part numbers all need to go in on the schematic so that a BOM can be easily produced and ordered. An yes when it gets to things like elecy capacitors you have to have a symbol per port number as it becomes important as to what part you have chosen.

[mkschreder]

KiCads library system makes very little sense unless you hack it Simon and do what I do in this video: https://youtu.be/5-GwQi7LG-A

I modified how kicad updates fields to make my life easier. Basicaly the rule is: never modify the part on the schematic - not even the value - do everything in the library and then update ALL fields besides the designator.

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