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devbisme / KiPart

Python package for generating multi-unit schematic symbols for KiCad from a CSV file.
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KiPart is AWESOME! #55

Closed adamfeuer closed 3 years ago

adamfeuer commented 3 years ago

Describe the bug Not a bug. KiPart is AWESOME!

Additional context

I had a very complex library for a microprocessor that I needed to refactor— to reorder hundreds of pins in a sane human-usable format. I thought I was going to have do it by hand in the graphical symbol editor. I tried that, got very frustrated with all the clicking and dragging, searched and found this tool, used kilib2csv to export my KiCAD lib to CSV, edited the CSV in a spreadsheet program, exported back to CSV, used kipart to export back to KiCAD. Boom! Usable part in minutes.

This tool is awesome.

Thank you.

eabase commented 3 years ago

You should add this to the README!

xesscorp commented 3 years ago

Hi, Adam. Thanks for the note. I'm glad KiPart saved you some effort. Your story is similar to the things that made me make KiPart.

Where did you search to find KiPart? I would be interested to know because there are a lot of useful add-on tools for KiCad and I'm not sure where people find out about them (if they even do).

adamfeuer commented 3 years ago

@xesscorp I found the library on this page: https://github.com/xesscorp/kicad-3rd-party-tools – the compilation was extremely helpful. Lots of good tools there. Thank you for that too.

adamfeuer commented 3 years ago

@eabase Here's a PR: https://github.com/xesscorp/KiPart/pull/56