I want to edit the positions of footprints in spreadsheet form (I have a table of the precise locations for the parts that I want to easily import into Pcbnew). There is a section of the Pcbnew docs entitled “Bulk editing tools”, but it’s listed as “todo” 
The schematic editor does have a “symbol fields table” editor that allows you to change things like footprints and values in a spreadsheet. Is there anything like that for Pcbnew? I know that the .kicad_pcb file is straight forward to edit, but I was wondering if there was a more convenient tool.
Thanks.
The TODO bulk editing tools in the docs refer to some tools in the Edit menu that won’t help here, unfortunately (Edit Track and Via Properties, Edit Text and Graphics Properties, Global Deletions).
One thought is you could do this with scripting, but I don’t know how to do it myself. It would probably be something like export a position file → edit the position file to put all the footprints in your desired location → your script reads the modified position file and moves all the footprints accordingly.
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