Put all footprints on a board - Python Script?

[Zh4ng]

Hi,

i my mind there exist a python script to put all footprints in a library on a pcb. I think @maui and @Joan_Sparky use it for the “ShowCase” of 3D-Models…

Iam search in the forum for a while but i cant find the post / script…

Anyone can help?

thx
Zh4ng

[Rene_Poschl]

I asked @maui the same thing in one of my last pull requests. Here his answer: https://github.com/easyw/kicad-3d-models-in-freecad/pull/150#issuecomment-383702194

[bobc]

I thought there was too, but I can’t find one.

KiCad used to come with “footprints.pdf”, all the library footprints in a PDF like it sounds, but no longer. I guess there is a script somewhere that generates that.

[Shack]

3D new library for Mechanical CAD exporting and enclosure design

hey Peeps added a few extra things to my place-all-components-within-a-library-to-a-board scipt pretty_to_kicadpcb.py (3.7 KB) the input folder needs to end with .pretty it will add the library name to each component so you can use the “update footprints” option in PCBnew if this is useable for other purposes it might make sense to add to the kicad-library-utils repo? (@SchrodingersGat)

[Joan_Sparky]

Well, @Shack did that and he already replied, so