Questions: Does the plugin update the database automatically when you start Kicad anew?

[frohro]

I like this plugin! One of the pain points of designing hobby PCBs for JLCPCB fabrication has been finding parts and footprints from JLCPCB. They should give you a big donation! I do have some questions that would be nice if they were answered clearly in the README.

1. Does the plugin automatically update the database every time Kicad is started?
   a) If not, how do we update it?

Thanks!

Rob

[frohro]

I made a video about installing this library. It is here.

[CDFER]

Thx for putting the time into making the video, I'll add it to the readme :)

As for updating, KiCad currently doesn't support fully automatic updates but it does notify you and you then have to manualy navigate to it and update it and apply pending changes (yeah it's a bit annoying).

What is quite annoying is that install size of 215MB does mean that updates take a 10+ seconds on older systems. So one my next projects is to replace all the triangular mesh .step files that have been pulled from jlcpcb with proper .step files from KiCad's (much smaller file sizes)

Here is an example of a bad .step file that is just a mesh (like .stl) under the hood