Plugins list or suggestions?

[DaQue]

Is there a list of available plugins? All I seem to find are BOM plugins. If not a list do you know of one you like and use?

[dchisholm]

From the KiCAD homepage at www.kicad.org, select “Discover” > “External Tools” to see https://kicad.org/external-tools/.

I know, from watching this Forum, there are many other Python scripts and applications created by users from time to time. Of course, some are redundant, some are outdated, and some fit a very specialized niche. I tried a couple of the BOM formatters and decided they didn’t fit my requirements closely enough to be useful. I also used a DXF export tool that was superior to KiCAD’s native DXF exporter, but haven’t had a need for it beyond a one-time requirement.

I don’t believe anybody has tried to assemble a listing of what’s available much less actually catalog them.

Dale

[John_Pateman]

I think that @devbisme did start a repo to catalog various ancillary programmes. The repo is still open and available for anyone to fork and add any additional scripts and utilities.

New site listing KiCad 3rd-party tools

I’m seeing instances where people are re-developing utilities that already exist for KiCad. For example, how many BOM tools do we have, now? Also, designers are not aware of all the utilities that exist to make their jobs easier. To partially remedy this, I created a Github repo that lists KiCad utilities from 3rd parties (i.e., those not working directly with the KiCad source code). If you’ve created a utility, then you can submit it to the list as a pull request. For those who are freaking o…

[DaQue]

Thanks guys. When I searched for Kicad plugins I got BOM plugin pages and the API docouments on Kicad.org.