Symbol generator script?

[Anders_Wallin]

I there something similar to kicad-footprint-generator for symbols?

forum has this old post, linking to kiPart.

are any of these symbol-scripting efforts active projects at the moment?

thanks.

Any interest here in an symbol generator?

Hello, I have written already an symbol generator for another schematic tool and now I’m thinking about an additional export interface to support KiCad library symbols. There are two main possibilities in the moment to generate symbols: Generate symbols from given CSV input (usage mainly for bigger pincount components like processors, FPGA’s …) PinType and pin negotiation are supported. Generate generic symbols (mainly used for connectors) In both cases you get an ASCII preview (see attache…

xesscorp/KiPart

pointhi/kicad-footprint-generator

[Rene_Poschl]

The kicad-library-utils repo has a symbol generator inspired by the footprint generator by @pointhi

https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library-utils/tree/master/schlib/autogen The lib for it is in the KiCadSymbolGenerator subfolder. The connector generator makes use of it.

And there is the symgen by @bobc which is used to generate the logic symbols in the official lib: https://github.com/bobc/kicad-symgen

[sebcaux]

For MCU or high pin count component, you can try uConfig : https://github.com/Robotips/uConfig

This open source tool can extract pins from PDF datasheet and organize pins as you specify in a rule file.

Demo here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW518srZXXQ