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This video is a part of KiCad 7 tutorial series, Which will take you through the journey of learning KiCad 7 from scratch to making your first Printed Circuit Board.
In this particular video, We'll discuss how to create custom footprint using KiCad 7 and following KiCad's Library Convention. Also we'll discuss in detail about footprint editor window, how to search for custom footprint online using tools like SNAP EDA / OCTO PART and finally see how we can import the external/custom libraries into KiCad's PCB layout editor
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▬▬▬▬▬▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬
0:00 - Intro
0:26 - Need for Custom Symbols
1:17- KiCad's Footprint Editor
1:41- Create New Footprint Library
2:20- Create New Footprint
6:26- Updating the PCB Footprint
7:26- Finding External Libraries
7:51 - Importing External Libraries
8:45 - Outro
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