Is there a plan for cmd interface for Kicad 5.99 to convert the schematics to svg?

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Hello,

I think I’ve seen some similar topics before for KiCAD 5, but not for an upcoming version.

Is there a way for batch conversion of KiCad schematics to svg image? Or, at least, command-line options to run something like this:

eeschema schematics_filename.kicad_sch --plot \
--plot-format svg \
--no-title-borders \
--output-folder ./svg/

Are there any plans to implement such functionality in the future?

My “reasoning” for such a feature request is that I’m a beginner hobbyist and collecting the schematics/concepts for further use. I started to keep my records in GitHub repo with remarks on topic and all schematics I redraw with KiCad for further use within a GitHub Markdown file as svg.
So, I would be just convenient to be able to run a script to process all changed schematics.

Thanks.

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At the moment there is no “decent” command line interface in KiCad and there also won’t be in short term future. There is also no scripting interface for Eeschema in kicad-nightly V5.99.

It has been given some thought though and I think it’s on the roadmap for KiCad V7.

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soon ™

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soonKICAD

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I too would love to see a python API for Eeschema. Is it really not going to be in the v6 release? :cry:

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The first KiCad V5 was released on 2018-07-22:

Which is now almost 3 years ago and I would be happy when KiCad-nightly V5.99 is debugged to a point that it can be released as KiCad V6. To get to this point, KiCad-nightly is already in feature freeze for some time. I am not very familiar with which features will or will not get it into KiCad V6.
https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=site%3Agitlab.com%2Fkicad+feature+freeze

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soon ™ does not mean no, it means Valve Time.

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time

It also means the v6 release is on valve time.

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I don’t know of any other software developing in such a speed as KiCAD does. It’s quite phenomenal. Speed is very relative :wink:

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