Hi!
I am working on a small PCB for educational purposes which is why I want to have rather excessive silkscreen information on the board so the user can immediately see which connections are made on the board.
For that I e.g. have drawn the internals of a shunt amplifier on silkscreen which looks like this
To get an appealing size / proportions between this silkscreen “component” and other ones I search for a possibility to scale the group while also scaling the line width proportionally. Not sure whether thats available in KiCad. If not, what would be the best workaround? Drawing in an external tool like IPE or inkscape and then importing as dxf while experimenting with scaling?
there is a very nice plugin for that, transform-it
it works on images, not directly on the ss items, but i use it extensively for logos and other graphical information to display in ss.
I have no experience with the transform-it plugin, so if that works, it’s great for you.
My own approach would probably first export a drawing of the PCB to a graphics program (inkscape, Gimp, Krita, etc.) Then you can create the fancy graphics and scale it to the PCB in a program that is made for such things. And then, in the final step, export the fancy graphics and import it in KiCad without further scaling.
and found it works great, simple and effective.