[sudo-discuss] Converting KiCad to Seeeed Fusion?

[ken at spaz.org]

On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 08:09:21AM -0700, Henner Zeller wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 at 20:48, <ken at spaz.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Is there an open source tool or KiCad plugin that'll convert
> > a KiCad PCB file to whatever format Seeeed Fucion wants?
> >
> > I found Osh Park super easy to work with as they have a nice
> > web gooey to do this and can accept KiCad PCB files.
> >
> > Seeeed Fusion, however, has instructions on exporting Gerber
> > files manually, which I followed, but which their system
> > did not accept. It seems like the kind of conversion that
> > could be automated away with some software.
> >
> > Googled around, didn't find anything.
> >
> > If you know of something that does, this, I'd like to use it.
> >
> 
> I usually generate all my gerber files with a little script, that I have in
> all my KiCAD
> projects in some form; it uses the KiCAD python bindings (so scripting
> needs to be compiled with Kicad)
> 
> 
> https://github.com/hzeller/pi-registerplex/blob/master/kicad-scripts/kicad-fab.py

Thanks, that looks like it might work.

> 
> Just invoke with the PCB and it creates a subdirectory plot/ which should
> contain everything
> needed. Zip up the plot/ subdirectory, and you're ready to go.
> 
> I find that board houses sometimes have issues with the newer Gerber
> formats, so switching off
> the attributes might be what is needed in your case; already done in this
> script
> https://github.com/hzeller/pi-registerplex/blob/master/kicad-scripts/kicad-fab.py#L27
> 
> -h