All;
Thanks for keeping KiCad awesome.
As a newbie (several years with CircuitMaker), who mainly came from a MechE background I put together some documentation on how to get from Illustrator to KiCad with a minimum of fuss!
TL;DR Gerbolyzer is awesome and supports Illustrator SVGs
Detailed instructions here: https://github.com/alorman/Ki_Cad_Docs/tree/main/using_illustrator_with_kicad
Hopefully this saves people some pain.
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