https://github.com/devbisme/KiPart

Python package for generating multi-unit schematic symbols for KiCad from a CSV file.
https://github.com/devbisme/KiPart

kicad-library kicad-symbols

Last synced: 18 days ago
JSON representation

Python package for generating multi-unit schematic symbols for KiCad from a CSV file.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/devbisme/KiPart
• Owner: devbisme
• License: mit
• Created: 2015-07-21T20:43:10.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-05-15T16:01:29.000Z (6 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-16T08:56:11.937Z (29 days ago)
• Topics: kicad-library, kicad-symbols
• Language: Python
• Size: 1.24 MB
• Stars: 174
• Watchers: 19
• Forks: 46
• Open Issues: 9
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.rst
  • Changelog: HISTORY.rst
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.rst
  • License: LICENSE

Awesome Lists containing this project

README

        
===============================

KiPart

===============================

.. image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/kipart.svg

        :target: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/kipart

Generate multi-unit schematic symbols for KiCad from a CSV, text, or Excel file.

* Free software: MIT license

* Documentation: https://devbisme.github.io/KiPart.

Features

--------

* Generates schematic part libraries for KiCad from CSV/text/Excel files.

* Converts lists of pins in a file into a multi-unit schematic part symbol.

* Converts multiple files stored in .zip archives.

* Each row of the file lists the number, name, type, style, unit and side of a pin.

* Pins on a unit with the same name (e.g., GND) can be placed at the same location

  so they can all be tied to the same net with a single connection.

* Also includes ``kilib2csv`` for converting schematic part libraries into

  CSV files suitable for input to KiPart.

Example Use Case

----------------

From a user:

I had a very complex library for a microprocessor that I needed to refactor—

I needed to reorder hundreds of pins in a sane human-usable format. I thought

I was going to have do it by hand in KiCAD's graphical symbol editor. I tried

that, got very frustrated with all the clicking and dragging. 

So I then:

* searched and found this tool,

* used ``kilib2csv`` to export my KiCAD lib to CSV, 

* imported the CSV in a spreadsheet program 

* edited the spreadsheet (mainly sorting the pins by function using the 

  spreadsheet's ``sort()`` function), 

* exported the spreadsheet back to CSV, 

* used ``kipart`` to export back to KiCAD. 

  

Boom! Usable part in minutes.