kicad-plugins
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MIT License | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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kicad-plugins
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KiCad Version 7.0.0 Released
I am a total amateur here. But I found it natural to keep a relative spacial coherence in the schematic, and have it somewhat similar on the PCB side.
Though kicad would just dump everything randomly when moving to thr PCB view. As I understand, "packing" should help keeping this spacial grouping.
There is a plugin though[1] that does place the components on the PCB similar as they are placed on the schematic (and this does work with sub-sheet too). This is tremendously helpful starting point.
[1] https://github.com/ian-ross/kicad-plugins
- pcb editor, there is no other way to displace parts besides picking them one by one by hand? it's easy if parts are few, it's a mess if parts are hundreds
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What is your method for initial board layout? The footprint crowd and rat’s nest is overwhelming when I just update from schematic.
Alternative, the plugin SchematicPositionsToLayout.py attempts to group components on the PCB by the schematic. (I haven't used this one yet, but it looks promising.)
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It's not fun anymore
There's also a schematic position to PCB position plugin which does a good job of faking it, although whether it'll work nicely with that many components is debatable.
KiBot
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UPDATED -- Review Request - ESP32-based board monitoring 24VAC w/ I2C, 1wire
My CICD is done with KiBot - https://github.com/INTI-CMNB/KiBot and my pipeline templates are https://github.com/gcormier/kicad-jobs
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Kicad Vault - A Component Management System
Not exactly the same you suggested, but many of those points are already covered by KiBot. You might want to take a look at it: Kibot
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KiCad Project Makefile
One of the features that peaked my interest with the release of 7.0 was kicad-cli. I've wanted a built in tool for CI/CD for a while. I know there is Kibot but to be honest, I found the base configuration a little overwhelming and also struggled to get it running locally on a macOS setup - without tainting system Python.
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KiCad Version 7.0.0 Released
KiBot [0] is super handy for this, the documentation has an explicit section on CI/CD usage.
It's a bit clunky (not KiBots fault at all, it has to basically script drive the GUI to achieve some functionality which has now been added to the kicad cli) so hopefully going forward CI/CD with KiCad will be even easier!
0: https://github.com/INTI-CMNB/KiBot
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The tooling ecosystem that adds joy to KiCad
I'm using KiBot for this, see pcb_replace/sch_replace options here: https://github.com/INTI-CMNB/KiBot#supported-preflight-optio...
- KiBot release - now supports KiCad v6!
- Fritzing is an open-source electronic design too
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KiCad 6.0.0
I've been bitten by the DRC before, but KiBot[0] renders that moot. I have it running as a pre-commit hook, and it generates my Gerbers and everything. That way, all this stuff is automated and I can't make a mistake.
Check out my project's config:
https://gitlab.com/stavros/esp32-cnc/-/blob/master/project.k...
[0]: https://github.com/INTI-CMNB/KiBot#introduction
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Kicad Helper Workflow
This mainly uses the KiBot action (https://github.com/INTI-CMNB/KiBot)
What are some alternatives?
horizon - Horizon is a free EDA package
kicad-test - A test of the KiCad GitHub Action
pyscad - Python bindings for OpenSCAD
fritzing-app - Fritzing desktop application
kicad_scripts - Utility Kicad scripts
lcsc2kicad - Generate KiCAD Part Libraries based on LCSC PCBA database
pcb-tools - Tools to work with PCB data (Gerber, Excellon, NC files) using Python.
esp32-cnc
esptemp8c - n-channel thermocouple logger using esphome
Ki-nTree - Fast part creation for KiCad and InvenTree
nscale4x8 - Reboot of my first N Scale railroad and my first layout in 20+ years