KiCad Console Scripting Tutorial

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Hello All,

I want to involve with kicad development.

The easiest way I could find is scripting.

I want to use console to do kind of interactive work in pcb layout. which could help me to test many algorithm.

But I can’t find such existing tutorial.

http://www.kicad.org/display/KICAD/KiCad+Scripting+Reference+Manual here some program but I am not able to run them in console.

And yes I am new to python but good at C / C++.

Any suggestion/pointer would be great to get started.

Regards

Piyush Verma

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Hello Piyush

As you might know the kicad source is hosted on https://launchpad.net/kicad, there I suggest you join the developer mailing list. I am not exactly sure that scripting is the easiest when you are good at C/C++. I suggest you have a look a the bug tracker and create patches for minor bugs.

The scripting is still new, so new testers is very welcome.

Also you might jump on #kicad@freenode on IRC to talk with like minded.