Designing spiral or helix [SOLVED]

Joan_Sparky · November 26, 2015, 11:19am

[quote=“Deppy, post:9, topic:1745”]
I’m not familiar with python. Although, I read the post but it’s not what I’m looking for in the moment but I’ll keep that in mind (when I’m in the mood for python). I prefer to create arcs in footprint editor and then convert them to copper in text editor.[/quote]

Well, I prefer to create copper spirals as tracks in python and copy&paste them into a kicad_pcb that has got the basic setup done and then enjoy myself

Code is here:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/JoanTheSpark/e5afd7081d9d1b9ad91a

KiCAD_CopperSpiral.py

import sys, os
import shutil
import math
import itertools
from copy import deepcopy

#              0        1          2      3      4        5    6
LIST_elmt = ["  ("," (start ",") (end ",") "," (layer ",") ","))"]
#LIST_elmt = ["  (gr_line (start 131.571908 182.314571) (end 112.874456 120.68499) (angle 90) (layer Dwgs.User) (width 0.1))"]
#LIST_elmt = ["  (segment (start 118.7 106.7) (end 119.4 106.7) (width 0.25) (layer B.Cu) (net 0))"]

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Have fun.