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The _KiCad to Boardview_ exporter writes \".brd\" files with ASCII _Boardview_ data. These files can be opened with MIT-licensed [OpenBoardView][].\n\n[openboardview]: https://openboardview.org/\n\n## Prerequisites\n\n_KiCad to Boardview exporter_ uses the [pcbnew plugin interface][pcbplugin]. It requires KiCad 6 or later. It requires Python with KiCad libraries installed in the Python search path.\n\n[pcbplugin]: https://dev-docs.kicad.org/en/apis-and-binding/pcbnew/\n\n## Usage\n\nRun the exporter as follows:\n\n    ./pcbnew2boardview.py example/example.kicad_pcb example/example.brd\n\nThis will read the PCB layout from `example/example.kicad_pcb` and write it to `example/example.brd`.\n\n## Examples\n\nThe _Boardview_ file for [Glasgow][] visualized with OpenBoardView looks like this, with the I2C SDA net selected:\n\n![](example/boardview.png)\n\nFor comparison, the PCB layout looks like this:\n\n![](example/layout.png)\n\n[glasgow]: https://github.com/whitequark/Glasgow\n\n## Caveats\n\n  * If the pin numbering on KiCad modules does not start with pin 1 and continue consecutively until last pin with an integer name, the pin numbering on the boardview will be wrong.\n  * Similarly to the previous caveat, the format does not allow to represent pin names such as `PAD` (on QFN packages) or `A0` (on BGA packages) correctly. These will be assigned arbitrary (but consistent) numbers instead.\n  * There is an unknown field in the \".brd\" files, written as `0`. It is ignored by OpenBoardView, but might actually mean something.\n\n## License\n\n_KiCad to Boardview exporter_ is distributed under the terms of 0-clause BSD license.\n\nSee [LICENSE-0BSD](LICENSE-0BSD.txt) for details.\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fwhitequark%2Fkicad-boardview","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fwhitequark%2Fkicad-boardview","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fwhitequark%2Fkicad-boardview/lists"}