plugin installation issues on mac

[eileen-zu]

Working from MacOS -- attempted to install the plugin according to instructions and it doesn't seem to appear; Tools > External Plugins > Reveal Plugin Folder in Finder takes me to the KiCad/8.0/scripting/plugins folder, but all other plugins (downloaded from KiCad) end up in the KiCad/8.0/3rdparty/plugins folder instead. Unsure of how to proceed to fix this issue

[steltze]

hey @eileen-zu thanks for reporting the issue.

• the KiCad/8.0/scripting/plugins is the correct directory, you can directly git clone the repo there
• the plugin was developed on KiCad 7 and Linux but it might not be critical
• from the KiCad terminal could you try importing scipy with import scipy to verify the correct installation of the library as it is needed for the plugin?
• from the PCB editor if you go to Preferences->Preferences->Action Plugins and press on the button with the warning sign, you can see exactly what caused the error. Could you post here a screenshot with the window that popped?