I’d like to export a PDF or generate some sort of vector file, where pad numbers and associated nets are exported, and visible in that drawing. Essentially similar to how they appear in the PCB editor.
The pads 7 to 15 are visible, as well as an “X” where that pad isn’t connected to any net, and “GND” because that pad is connected to the Net of that name. I wish to export some form of vector graphic with those values, quite similar to how they appear in my editor, etc.
OK, is there perhaps a pluging I could use? I’m looking at the Board2Pdf plugin right now, but it doesn’t seem to be able to export those values to PDF either. It just exports the Cu layer as such, without any further pin information
I feel like this should be added as an option to the exporters. I will soon be facing a similar issue since I want to use the external renderer function in gitea to allow for basic review functionality in the browser.
Especially for footprints, it will be necessary to at least display the pin numbers.
From my point of view, using external tools for this functionality creates unnecessary dependencies, so I would prefer to only use kicad-cli for this.
Given that the PDF export already is able to export information about e.g. footprints, there should already be some kind of interface for information like this. So this should imho mostly be about extending this functionality.
That would be actually kinda superb.
In my case, it was the PCB manufacturer that requires that PDF, I’d normally simply require people use KiCad to inspect the project file themselves.
