Web Viewing of KiCad files - 2

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@jmwright - Did this actually get somewhere for us KiCAD newbies to use?

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There is a webtool that works really nice: https://kicanvas.org/

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@insight I never finished the work on this, and STEMN (the original reason for posting this) does not exist anymore, at least not that I’m aware of. I have used xvfb in CI (Linux) on Github to do headless exports from software such as KiCAD, but I don’t have an option that is easy to use. The link that @Mineotopia posted looks promising though.

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Old thread for reference: Web Viewing of KiCAD Files

@jmwright Thanks for sharing. I figured given how many hobbyist KiCAD projects are available on GitHub, there might’ve be an easier/ faster - web extensions or script for preview purposes.

@Mineotopia Thanks. I wish this could be used more easily :slight_smile: for new student learning PCBs as a hobbyist. LOL.

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Tried some github based.kicad_mod links but no dice. Is there some way to see them?

@Mineotopia

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In case anyone is interested, HQNextPCB has a rather full-featured fork of kicanvas here: GitHub - Huaqiu-Electronics/ecad-viewer: View Electronic Designs Online

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Nope, it is not done by me. But in my few tests it worked as expected

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You have to paste links to either project (.kicad_pro), schematic (.kicad_sch) or PCB (*.kicad_pcb).
90% of the works fine. Some old projects (made with a very old KiCAD version) don’t open. I think the developer(s) are woking on that too.

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Likely the rescue library vs cached in file libary

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Known Issues from their docs page:

  • Any KiCAD 5 files, KiCanvas can only parse files from KiCAD 6 and later.
  • Some KiCAD 7 features might not be fully implemented, such as custom fonts in schematics.
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