The tooling ecosystem that adds joy to KiCad

• skidl

  12 974 7.3 Jupyter Notebook

  SKiDL is a module that extends Python with the ability to design electronic circuits.

I'd like to see documentation on your workflow. You can also post it on https://github.com/devbisme/skidl/discussions.

There is a generate_pcb() function in SKiDL that will output a kicad_pcb file that can be directly opened using PCBNEW (no need to generate the intermediate netlist file). That function uses HierPlace to group the parts based on their hierarchical organization. That would be a good place to inject some autoplacement if you get it figured out.

• KiBot

  9 505 9.7 Python

  KiCad automation utility

  

I'm using KiBot for this, see pcb_replace/sch_replace options here: https://github.com/INTI-CMNB/KiBot#supported-preflight-optio...

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• freerouting

  7 1,090 9.3 Java

  Advanced PCB auto-router

  

The best thing to happen to KiCad was skidl [1] paired with freerouting [2]. You can spin a board in so little time it's insane. In the future I will be looking to automate even the parts placement too.

P.S. If there is interest I will look to document my workflow.

[1] https://github.com/devbisme/skidl

[2] https://github.com/freerouting/freerouting

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