Hider layers comment, drawings, from CLI render

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Hi there,

can anyone point me to arguments/options on kicad-cli to hide comments, drawings, eco, etc. from rendering output again? Struggle to find it.

Thanks in advance!

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Rendering PCBs from the KiCad CLI is supposed to support render presets from your 3D Viewer. But due to a bug, this does not work currently. An issue was created here - Feature Request: Custom preset support for 3D render cli command (#20660) · Issues · KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad · GitLab. You might not see this feature until V10. You can upvote the issue to improve the chance of getting it sooner.

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Thank you. So, apart from using presets, which do not work and storef globally there is no way to control the layers with arguments? so, to me from automation point of view, thats bit really usable, sadly.

I upvoted both your issues in the tracker :blush:

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I want to suggest a workaround, but the thing is KiCad renders the images in inconsistent ways that I am not even able to reproduce :sweat_smile:. Just change a few settings in the 3D Viewer and you get a different result, and I don’t know why.

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I am not sure where these follow_pcb_editor, follow_plot_settings (default), or the legacy_preset_flag settings are stored. These are supported by the render command. If they are stored in some file, you could try modifying it.