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 ====== KiCad Footprint Management ======
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-This article needs updating to KiCad 4.
+The stuff here was written for versions of KiCad preceding 4.0. The latest versions of KiCad have introduced new library management features, rendering some of what follows obsolete.
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 KiCad places footprints into **footprint libraries**. Footprint libraries use the ''.mod'' extension. One ''.mod'' file typically contains definitions for several (usually related) footprints.
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 KiCad uses the term "module" interchangably with "footprint".
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 There are two kinds of libraries in KiCad: **footprint libraries**, which are stored in ''.mod'' files, and **component libraries** (i.e., schematic symbol libraries), which are stored in ''.lib'' files. Our concern here is with footprint libraries.
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 You should add new footprints only to user footprint libraries. See [[#User footprint libraries]] and [[#Adding existing footprints to an existing user library]] below.
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 **Even though you can import footprints into system and third-party libraries, you are strongly advised against making any changes to system and third-party libraries.**
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 For creating new footprints and for making changes to footprints in system or third-party footprint libraries, it is highly recommended that you use only libraries you have created yourself---what we will call //user libraries//. In other words, you should create new footprints only in user libraries, and footprints in system and third-party libraries that you wish to change should first be copied to a user library and edited there.
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 **Even though you can create/add/edit footprints in system and third-party libraries, you are strongly advised against making any changes to system and third-party libraries.**