/awesome-kicad

A curated list of awesome KiCad plugins and resources

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Contributing

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Contents

Plugins

Panelization
  • KiKit: Library and CLI tool to panelize boards, export manufacturing data and build board presentation pages.
  • panelize-plugin: Automatic KiCad panelization plugin
Manufacturing BOM and Gerbers
PCB Design
  • Svg2Shenzhen: Inkscape extension for exporting drawings into a KiCad PCB.
  • PcbDraw: Convert your KiCAD boards into nice looking 2D drawings suitable for pinout diagrams
  • svg2mod: Convert Inkscape SVG drawings to KiCad footprint modules
  • KiBuzzard: Create labels in various fonts, and with inverted backgrounds
  • Stretch: Allow your PCBs to stretch!
  • Laser Stencil Plugin: KiCAD Pcbnew plugin to generat laser cutter G-Code files for solder paste stencils
  • Stimulu KiCad Plugins: Collection of KiCad plugins to reproduce or use Stimulu board files.
  • KiCad Templates: Provides a number of additional Board and production house templates for KiCad EDA.
  • FreeRouting: Advanced PCB auto-router
  • uConfig: Datasheet pinout extractor from PDF and library Stylizer for Kicad.
  • KiBot: KiCad automation utility.
  • KiCad RF Tools: Footprints, wizards and round tracks, mask expander, via fencing
Presentations
  • InteractiveHtmlBom: Generate convenient BOM listing with ability to visually correlate and easily search for components and their placements on the pcb
Reviewing
  • plotkicadsch: Export Kicad Sch files to structured picture files
  • KiCad-Diff: Plugin to perform image diffs between pcbnew layout revisions
  • kdiff: A tool for reviewing Kicad's projects visually including schematics and layout using Kicad-Diff and Plotgitsch
Converters
  • Altium2Kicad: Altium to KiCad converter for PCB and schematics
  • Eagle to KiCad: Eagle SCH/LIB to KiCad SCH/LIB ULP conversion script
GUI

Symbols

Footprints

3D Models

Tutorials

  • Keyboard PCB guide: Guide on how to design keyboard PCBs with KiCad
  • Hawk: Tutorial for making an ARM dev board in KiCAD

3rd-Party Component Integration

  • Kandle: CLI to automatically import 3rd-party components (symbols, footprints and 3D-models) into KiCad.

Verilog / VHDL Tools