I have installed KiCad 7.0.9, I am trying to generate PAD PCB netlist from the KiCad. But i observed there is no pads plugins available in the pluggins folder. Could someone guide how to generate the Pads supporting files(.asc format) and if someone have PADs script please share with me.
You appear to want to get an “.asc” file from a PCB.
“.asc” is an LTSpice file and, Kicad cannot Export Netlists from a Kicad PCB. Kicad exports Netlist from the Schematic, not from PCB.
If you create a kicad schematic, you can export a Netlist then (with a couple of click’s) use it for LTspice (I won’t post here how to do that - it’s pretty easy to do).
Is that what you want to do? If so, first create your schematic and we can continue from that…
First, do a very simple circuit to ensure you grabbed usable Symbols for Spice…
i am looking for the pads supporting netlist (.asc file) from the schematic not from the PCB. But i am unable to find Pads netlist option from the netlist generator tab. Could you please guide how to generate .asc file from the kicad schematics.I have designed a small circuit. i have generated the netlist but it is in .net format but i want .asc format. Please help me to generate .asc file from the schematic.
Please note that this Not the LTSpice file type in this case, OP apparently really does want a PADS netlist file that happens to have the same file extension as the LTspice .asc.
I managed to get a PADS netlist (I think), but you have to download the script from gitlab, put it into the hidden Kicad folder, then add the generator. It produces a .net not a .asc file.
It would be a lot easier if the script was installed with Kicad, perhaps the reason it isn’t is because it is buggy/unsupported?
Hi @BlackCoffee. I am planning to use kicad for schematic design. But my layout team is using pads software. They are importing .asc file to the pads. So now i am planning to generate .asc file from the KiCad schematics. Now i am trying to find script for the pads netlist.
It is odd that PADS netlist is no longer included in the normal install as a tab in the Netlist Export section… I think you might be right that the netlist scripts don’t all work. I don’t even see any of the netlist export scripts shown on the master branch in my installation of KiCad v7.0.8 or the nightly installation of v7.99.
The OrCADPCB netlist export just generates a .net from KiCad, so that one doesn’t seem to work. The CADStar netlist export does generate something unique, so I assume that one works. Presumably Spice and Spice Model work, as the ngspice integration relies on them. (I’m not even sure how the CADStar netlist export is working, since there isn’t an obvious python script in the relevant folder.)
I tried manually installing the PADS PCB netlist generator linked above, it does not work for v.7.0.8, but does appear to work for v7.99.
All in all, seems like there’s at least one bug here. One issue is that the Python scripts for netlists are not getting copied into the installers during release build. (Maybe intentional?) The second issue is that the netlist exporters have regressed from v6 in the sense that the default tabs do not all work and the PADS PCB netlist default option is missing.
EDIT: A warning for OP, please make sure you make a backup in case you choose to use the development nightly version v7.99 to do this netlist export, as you Cannot return to the stable v7.0.x series after saving your files in v7.99.