How does one import a mechanical drawing for the board into KiCAD

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Another good approach if you are familiar with freecad is to use the Kicad StepUp (KSU) workbench:

Kicad StepUp: a Seamless ECAD/MCAD PCB Data Integration

KiCAD StepUp has added a Seamless ECAD/MCAD PCB Data Integration Push/Pull 3D model placement from/to KiCAD board to/from FreeCAD mechanical design Ability to move 3D packages around on the 3D PCB mechanical sw, via both the X and Y axis Tracks will not be touched by the placements done in the MCAD sw. All the routing will remain in KiCAD. The syncing process can be done even if the board is (fully) routed (i.e. when a new release requires some mechanical reviews). Pull Ki…

KiCad StepUp: The Sketcher for Footprint generation

This should be reported to FC forum, related to Qt5 & driver issues… it is not related to KSU code, but to pc drivers & Qt5 compatibilities. I don’t know what has changed between FC 0.18.3 and 0.18.4, but on my PCs StepUp does work correctly with both releases. Even FC0.19 is fine too. duckduckgo search for ‘Unhandled Base::Exception caught in GUIApplication::notify.’