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Filled polygon becomes hollow after using Shape Modification → Fillet lines
I drew a solid graphic polygon in KiCad. When I use Shape Modification → Fillet lines to round the corners, the fillet is applied but the polygon becomes hollow (outline only). After this, the ...
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C# .NET based KiCAD parser
For internal evaluation I’m searching for a .NET based KiCAD parser that can read KiCAD PCB and schematic files. Has anyone experiences with those libraries?
For python I can find a lot but for .NET ...
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During Start of Debugging of KiCad happens the following error: Fatal Python error: failed to get the Python codec of the filesystem encoding
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I want to debug KiCad on Windows 10 with visual studio with kicad.cpp as start point. There comes the following appended screen.
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I start Debugging KiCad with visual ...
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How to read KiCad page settings values from a python BOM generation script
I am using KiCad V6 and have modified the bill of materials generation script bom_csv_grouped_by_value.py to produce BOM's only containing the information I am interested in, and formatted how I like. ...
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Kicad6 Plug-in does not appear in menu
I am not able to get an action plug-in to appear in the PCBNEW menu. I have run the following to determine the path:
import pcbnew
print(pcbnew.PLUGIN_DIRECTORIES_SEARCH)
# with the following output:...
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Fork a gitlab repo, simple way to pull merge requests from original into fork?
Question specific to GitLab.
The KiCad footprints repository has currently over 400 open merge requests:
https://gitlab.com/kicad/libraries/kicad-footprints/-/merge_requests
I created a fork of the ...
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Kicad PCB file gets corrupted during git merge
I use git to maintain all my kicad projects. Whenever I want to do a design change, I just make a new git branch and start making changes, and then later on merge it with the main.
The problem I faced ...
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Kicad: error 40 when exporting BOM using Python
From EESchema I’m trying the various BOM export scripts to find which one is better for my needs. Most of them fails with the following error, though:
Run command:
python "/usr/share/kicad/...
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How to install Kicad 5.15 by use local repository way?
I have installed Kicad 5.15 on my computer and it works fine, and I have saved all the deb files downloaded during the last installation and put them in /var/cache/apt/archives, when I need to ...
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While using git to control the source code of firmware from a hardware project, is it a good idea having the KiCAD schematic/PCB in the same repo?
I already use git as a VCS to control software and firmware I develop. Having done some work lately on the hardware side and coming to the conclusion that it is viable to control KiCAD schematic and ...
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Placing a component using KiCad's Python API
I have a problem with KiCad's python API (5.1), I cannot find a way to add a component onto the PCB.
I found some examples but they no longer work with the version of KiCad I am using. The next step ...
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Pcbnew for Kicad cannot be imported in python3.5
I just started learning to customize my foorprint in Kicad via python scripts. I got stuck on "import pcbnew" because it gave me the error "no module name pcbnew" all the time. I checked my Kicad ...
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WxPython 3.0 installation in Ubuntu 14.04
I am trying to build KiCad on Ubintu 14.04 where i need to install wxPython 3.0 . But the problem is that I am not able to install wxPython 3.0. Moreover, i am unable to find any help to install this ...
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kicad gcc error no such file or directory
[ 59%] Compiling bitmap2component's resource file
gcc: error: Sanchez/AppData/Roaming/SPB_Data/src/MINGW-Packages/mingw-w64-kicad-git/src/kicad/bitmap2component: No such file or directory
E:\...
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Successful build of Kicad 4.0.6 in Linux Mageia 5 via fixing a wx-3.0 symbol
I have managed to build the Kicad 4.0.6 in Linux Mageia 5.1 with gcc version 4.9.2. I first manually fixed two wxWidgets 3.0.2 header files in the /usr/include/wx-3.0/wx/ directory: regex.h and ...