svg2shenzhen
Convert Inkscape SVG drawings to KiCad PCB and footprint modules (by badgeek)
gerbolyze
Directly render SVG overlays into Gerber and Excellon files (by jaseg)
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| svg2shenzhen | gerbolyze | |
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| 8 | 2 | |
| 683 | 292 | |
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| 0.0 | 8.4 | |
| 3 months ago | 9 months ago | |
| C++ | C++ | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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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.
svg2shenzhen
Posts with mentions or reviews of svg2shenzhen.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-24.
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First Blank Panel Design
My first blank panel design- I used svg2shenzen to generate the kiCAD project files and referenced the Printable Instruments repo for layer arrangement, format etc.
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Text in a copper pour? Can it be done?
For graphics i would suggest the use of https://github.com/badgeek/svg2shenzhen (A inkscape plugin that outputs kicad compatible files)
gerbolyze
Posts with mentions or reviews of gerbolyze.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-13.
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Sickos, Lain Dancing, Tetsuo, Plus I Got Depression
I mainly went off of this post from 2018 but there are tools like Gerbolize that would work (they're doing a rewrite of the code soon that'll make it easier to build I believe)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing svg2shenzhen and gerbolyze you can also consider the following projects:
pcbflow - Python based Printed Circuit Board (PCB) layout and design package based on CuFlow.
artpcb - Artistic PCBs for Terrified Beginners workshop materials
Beagle_SDR_GPS - KiwiSDR: BeagleBone web-accessible shortwave receiver and software-defined GPS
xfm2-pcbs - PCBs for the excellent FPGA synth projects XFM2 and XVA1.
Qucs-RFlayout - Export Qucs RF schematics to KiCad layouts & OpenEMS scripts
lunasvg - lunasvg is a standalone SVG rendering library in C++
scour - Scour - An SVG Optimizer / Cleaner
qucs_s - Qucs-S provides GUI for different circuit simulation kernels.
printable-instruments - PCB panels for Mutable Instruments eurorack modules
rethinkscape - A new UX/UI proposal for inkscape