Footwork

Work in progress

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An experimental footprint (text) editor for KiCAD. The aim is to allow Racket scripting mixed in with data to generate and edit footprints. More direct traditional manipulation (clicking and dragging and such) will be added as calls to scripting functions.

sketch-n-sketch is an inspiration which aims to provide a similar editor for SVGs and calls this style of manipulation "prodirect" (programmatic + direct).

I gave a presentation about footwork at FOSDEM 2017.

Planned features

The interface is text-first allowing users to make arbitrary edits: their needs need not be anticipated by the user interface
Users can use a fully featured general purpose programming languages to generate and modify footprints
Traditional (mouse based) manipulation is being added as calls to scripting
Racket's Rosette language, an interface to SMT solvers, offers the exciting opportunity to make use of cutting edge techniques in programming synthesis for design automation

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Kicad Source Mirror	1,461	12 hours ago		gpl-3.0	C++
This is an active mirror of the KiCad development branch, which is hosted at GitLab (updated every time something is pushed). Pull requests on GitHub are not accepted or watched.
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Footwork	7	2 years ago		mit	Racket
(WIP) Experimental KiCAD footprint editor
Hamshield09	4	8 years ago	1		KiCad
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Kicad	4	6 years ago		other	C
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Hamshield1	2	4 years ago
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