(I don’t know the version, but it’s fairly recent.) We also use the paleolithic technique of paper cutouts to create mock-ups, verify fits, assess the visual impact of design concepts, etc. We are neo-Luddites, doing most of our day-to-day mechanical CAD work in 2-D tools - specifically, AutoCAD. I’m working with a mechanical guy to position circuit boards, connectors, LED’s, etc, within an enclosure. I do not have an immediate need, but I see others asking so I presume they want to either harvest KiCad footprints.
#Librecad python series
If I had a suggestion for future improvements, I’d ask for either some way to include only specified layers in the output file, or a series of output files, one for each layer in the input file. I modified the Python script to include the “Margin” layer among the outputs. Is there a way to run it directly from the “Scripting Console” in PCBNew? (Especially if it could use the board file currently loaded in PCBNew as the default input file.) The suggestions I found in the thread “Tutorials on python scripting in pcbnew” at Tutorials on python scripting in pcbnew didn’t seem to help me. I fumbled around for a few hours before I got the Python program to run, from the Windows “CMD” window. Python kicadpcb2dxf.py -f kicad-board.kicad_pcb Thank you very much for this tool! The *.dxf files it produces are definitely superior to those produced by KiCAD’s “DXF Export” feature. I’ve made a dxf exporter for mechanical layers of a kicad_pcb board"Dwgs", “Cmts”, “Edge”, “Eco1”, “Eco2”, “F.Fab”, “B.Fab”
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