kipi 0.1.0

A tool for downloading and installing kiCad packages

A tool for downloading and installing kiCad packages, primarily for KiCad v5.

Runs on Windows, should run on Linux (MacOs might also work).

Description

Currently supports footprints, symbols and templates. Configurations for KiCad official v5 libraries and templates, SparkFun, DigiKey and Walter Lain libraries.

Where available, point releases are downloaded as a zip file. Otherwise, latest versions of git repositories are cloned locally.

This script uses git to:

1. Clone a repository if you don’t have it

2. Pull the latest repository if you already have it locally (does an update).

Content types:

• Footprints can be installed to fp-lib-table.

• Symbols can be installed to sym-lib-table.

• Templates are copied to $USER/kicad/template

• 3dmodels TODO

• Scripts TODO

Existing xx-lib-table will be saved to xx-lib-table-old.

Usage

kipi [options] <package file> [<version>]

Package file contains the packages to download/install. Version is a valid version from the package file or “latest”.

Options are:

-h, --help

Shows a help screen on the command line

-v, --verbose

Shows the verbose messages

-q, --quiet

Don’t show logging

-c, --config <local folder>

Configure get-libs. The local folder is the folder you want all your local data put in.

-d, --download

Download package data only

-i, --install

Install package data into KiCad (implies download)

-u, --uninstall

Uninstall package data from KiCad

Example Usage

kipi -c c:kicad_data

kipi -vi kicad-official-libraries-v5.yml

Dependencies

• You need to have git installed to clone/update local git repositories.

Otherwise it should just run with a standard distribution of python 2.x, there are no special libraries used.

Bugs/Feature Requests

Please raise issue on github.

Credits

KiPI is derived from project https://github.com/hairymnstr/kicad-getlibs.