RF-tools-KiCAD
KiCAD RF tools: footprints wizard and round tracks, mask expander, via fencing (by easyw)
kicad_footprints
A collection of all the KiCad footprints on the internet (by kitspace)
| RF-tools-KiCAD | kicad_footprints | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 1 | |
| 635 | 310 | |
| - | 2.9% | |
| 6.1 | 0.0 | |
| 26 days ago | over 1 year ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
RF-tools-KiCAD
Posts with mentions or reviews of RF-tools-KiCAD.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-24.
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Migrating from Cadence Allegro
If you have the time, spend a half-hour to check out the KiCad-StepUp-FreeCad RF examples. Plugin for some RF tools.. If you can get a DXF or similar 2d export of the footprint, you can feed it through StepUp->KiCad. Test it out for yourself, it will only cost you your time. All these run on Windows and Linux, support Python scripting, and use plain text files you can parse and/or manipulate directly.
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Help installing Pyclipper
I cloned https://github.com/easyw/RF-tools-KiCAD.
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How would one route a driven guard in kicad. Is there a way to tell kicad should remove solder mask over the trace?
I don't know of any way to do it "natively" in KiCad, but the RF tools plugins includes a "solder mask expander" that should do what you want.
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OrCAD -> KiCAD
You are welcome. When you get used to it, I suggest to add some plugins, such as Interractive BOM, Via Stitching and RF Tools
kicad_footprints
Posts with mentions or reviews of kicad_footprints.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-27.
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From Idea to Printed Circuit Board in One Week
Maybe SnapEDA and their new KiCad plugin [1] would be a good fit for you? I've not used the plugin myself but I do use SnapEDA footprints myself occasionally. I also try and keep on top of all the footprints available on GitHub and add them to our repo [2], you can add this globally and search through it from within KiCad.
1: https://blog.snapeda.com/2020/09/09/introducing-the-snapeda-...
2: https://github.com/kitspace/kicad_footprints
What are some alternatives?
When comparing RF-tools-KiCAD and kicad_footprints you can also consider the following projects:
kicad-plugins - [Outdated] KiCad-Plugins
horizon - Horizon is a free EDA package