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Bouni / kicad-jlcpcb-tools

Plugin to generate BOM + CPL files for JLCPCB, assigning LCSC part numbers directly from the plugin, query the JLCPCB parts database, lookup datasheets and much more.
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Generate production files using CLI #533

Closed avsaase closed 2 days ago

avsaase commented 4 days ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I want to generate production files in a GitHub Action by invoking a CLI instead of generating them from the GUI.

Describe the solution you'd like Is there a way to generate the production files using a CLI? The workflow I would like to have is where you assign the parts from the GUI and commit the SQLite database. A GitHub Action then generates the production files and creates a release. This way only source files are committed to git.

Describe alternatives you've considered Kicad provides a CLI that can generate production files but as far as I can see this does doesn't work together with the plugin.

Bouni commented 2 days ago

I recommend you use KiBot as it specifically made for that use case: https://kibot.readthedocs.io/en/master/

This plugin was never meant to be used headless so I never seperated the buissness logic from the GUI in away that I can easily allow headless usage ...