`kigadgets` Documentation¶

kigadgets is designed to let you interact design files or extend kicad to fit your purposes without the need to write C++ code.

From inside pcbnew you are able to recover the current Board object like this:

from kigadgets.board import Board
pcb = Board.from_editor()

From outside, you can load a board file like this:

from kigadgets.board import Board
pcb = Board.load('my_board.kicad_pcb')

Once you have a Board, all other operations behave exactly the same within the GUI or outside the GUI.:

>>> print([track.layer for track in pcb.tracks])
[F.Cu, B.Cu, B.Cu]
>>> print([track.width for track in pcb.tracks if track.is_selected])
[0.8, 0.6]

kigadgets Documentation¶