Create a Local Library

In addition to the (read-only) remote libraries, you should create a personal, so-called local library. This is the place where you’ll add your own symbols, footprints etc. later.

To do so, click on the to the Create a New Library button, optionally enter some metadata (default values are usually good enough) and click on Create Library:

Afterwards you could enter more metadata of the library, but that’s usually not required so you can just click on Next:

If you switched from KiCad or Eagle to LibrePCB, you could import your existing libraries now. However, this can also be done at any time later, so you can just choose Finish for now:

That’s it, your library is now created and is ready to get some library elements added to it, as explained in a later chapter. At the moment you will just see an empty library. At the moment we don’t need the library editor, anymore, so you can close it with the X button in the Open Documents panel:

Your workspace setup is now complete and ready to start creating your first PCB project! We’ll come back to the library editor later when we need to create our own library elements.