I need to create our company logo for KiCad in several sizes.
After I drew it in one size I tried to scale it.
KiCad does not have a scale function, so I looked into writing a script, which reads the Footprint, scales it at redraws it. It looks like the KiCad API does support this for the PCB-Editor, but not for footprints.
It this the end of the story and I simply have to draw 10x the same Logo manually, or is there some hidden function which can support this task?
Marko
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KiCad is not very good with graphics, and it also lacks common graphic functions such as scaling. Drawing the logo in an external vector program (such as the already mentioned Inkscape) and then importing it in KiCad is probably one of the easiest and best ways.
If you’ve already drawn the logo in KiCad, you can export it as SVG, and then import it again. During import you can enter a scale factor and this makes it easier to create the logo in different scales.
“Image converter” in KiCad (a.k.a. The bitmap to component converter tool) can also vectorize bitmaps, the results are probably passable, but not very optimal. If you have any experience with a drawing program that can export either .SVG or .DXF, then that is probably the best option.
