Automation

This repository contains a Makefile that automates PDF and Gerber export.

Requirements

Apart from KiCad 7 this requires some additional software.

The Makefile calls a Python script that makes use of sexptdata to parse KiCad files. Install Poetry and run poetry shell followed by poetry install in the root of this repositoryto set up a virtual environment with the required package(s). To re-enter this environment, simply run poetry shell in the root of this repository.

For PDF export you additonally need to install Poppler. Gerber export requires zip.

Nix(OS)

If you are using the Nix package manager, you can enter a development environment with KiCad and all other software by running nix-shell in the root of this repository.

Export

To export all PDFs and production files, simply run

make

PDFs and production files are exported automatically when you git commit, if you have Git Hooks set up.

Installing Git Hooks (optional)

The hooks directory contains client-side git hooks. Currently only the pre-commit hook is used to automatically export plots.

To enable the hooks locally, run the following in the root of the repository.

git config core.hooksPath ./hooks

KiCad Version

Version information of the KiCad used to generate the files.

[nix-shell:~/repos/kicad-template]$ kicad-cli version --format about

Application: kicad-cli x86_64 on x86_64

Version: 7.0.1, release build

Libraries:
        wxWidgets 3.2.2
        FreeType 2.12.1
        HarfBuzz 6.0.0
        FontConfig 2.14.0
        libcurl/7.87.0 OpenSSL/3.0.8 zlib/1.2.13 brotli/1.0.9 zstd/1.5.2 libidn2/2.3.2 libssh2/1.10.0 nghttp2/1.51.0

Platform: , 64 bit, Little endian, wxBase, , wayland

Build Info:
        Date: Jan  1 1980 00:00:00
        wxWidgets: 3.2.2 (wchar_t,wx containers) GTK+ 0.0
        Boost: 1.79.0
        OCC: 7.6.2
        Curl: 7.87.0
        ngspice: 37
        Compiler: GCC 12.2.0 with C++ ABI 1017

Build settings:
        KICAD_USE_EGL=ON
        KICAD_SPICE=ON