Installation & build

Installing KiCad and using its Python API (GUI, console, headless)

Positioning a footprint with pcbnew's Python API Placing a grid of footprints with pcbnew's Python API Flipping a footprint to the back layer with pcbnew's Python API Duplicating an existing footprint with pcbnew's Python API

Traces & routing

Routing a trace with pcbnew's Python API Routing a right-angle bent trace with pcbnew's Python API Adding a layer-change via in the middle of a route with pcbnew's Python API

Creating a via with pcbnew's Python API Creating a stitching-via grid with pcbnew's Python API Creating a blind or buried via with pcbnew's Python API Auditing and counting a board's vias with pcbnew's Python API

Creating a copper zone (ground plane) with pcbnew's Python API Creating a routing keepout zone with pcbnew's Python API Setting a copper zone's thermal relief with pcbnew's Python API Creating a multi-layer copper zone with pcbnew's Python API

Fabrication export

Generating fabrication files (Gerber) with pcbnew's Python API

Projects & builds

Generating a QR code on a PCB with pcbnew's Python API

Fabrication export

Generating fabrication files (Gerber) with pcbnew's Python API

Export a board's Gerber files by script, without going through KiCad's plot dialog — with pcbnew or the IPC API.

ScriptedPCB

KiCad scripting tutorials, with pcbnew and the IPC API.

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