Highlight footprints for assembly

[Joan_Sparky]

There are a couple of scripts external of KiCAD that do something similar to what you want..

This is a start:

Making a good assembly drawing for hand soldering out of the KiCAD PCBNew

Recently I’ve used a complicated procedure which I will even not be able to reproduce step by step. Generally it contains generating of gerber files with a tricky layers on and off and some additional options (like not to plot a references). After that I used online gerber view tool named www.gerber-viewer.com where I uploaded layer after layer and than (luckily) plot the result to PDF. First of all the assembling employee argued that the drawing was not any good: No references (actually it …