Best praktisch to create a personal library

Fabrication
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I did follow your KiCad 7 tut; very nice and learned a lot. Did create already three PCB's; not yet send to a PCB suppler but it is close. For now I did follow your tut to build the PCB's but have some question because I have some parts on all the boards and want to create my own librarie.

What is the best praktisch to build a library with part, footprint ( pretty ), symbols and step files? Should I create folders with al those elements in there with their Datasheets? Or should I create a folder for each type of file? Like all the symbols together, all 3d-step files together and pretty files to gather. Or just dump everything in one folder and let kicad figure it out ?

I hope my question is clear enough to understand. I like to do it right and one way because messing with ideas later is a lot of work of course.

Any suggestions?

 

Thank you very much in advance.

 

iPadawan

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To build any custom library, it's always recommended to follow KLC. Which has all the conventions and best practices that's followed to build a custom footprint and symbol. For organization, I generally put all the parts (symbol, Footprint and 3D model) of a component in one folder. Which I later import as required. To maintain a large set of custom libraries, I would suggest you follow this tutorial.