kicadPanelizer is a program for fast automatic PCB panelization proces. That's what people have been doing so far manually, sometimes wasting a lot of time, using the "Join plate" option, it is now achievable by a few clicks.

• script based

• step repeat on both dimensions

• Rotation

• adds common panel elements from separate file to ease panel composition (for stuff that cannot be repeated, like tooling frame, fiducials, etc...)

• substitutes the text "##PCBNUMBER##" anywhere on the PCB with an incremental number (so the board number can be located even after separation if necessary)

• works with complex board shapes, rotations, v-scoring or routing.

• demo project included with v-score, routing, tooling frame example

Some output from the included demo project:

This one program is designed as a maximum to facilitate as much as possible.

Unpack newest release to prefered dir.

Unix based OS user can set execute privileges to execute as any other shell script:

chmod +x generate_panelized_pcb.py

From command line in dir with script:

./generate_panelized_pcb.py

or simply double click on the file to execute it

To run it it's nessesary to install:

• [Python interpreter] in version 2 (On today newests is 2.7.8). Don't miss with version 3 (On today newests is 3.4.1).
• [KiCAD] compiled with allowed python scripting. Minimum BZR version is 5161.
• [GTK Libraries]. [Python interpreter]: https://www.python.org/downloads/ [KiCAD]: http://kicad-pcb.org/ [GTK Libraries]: http://www.gtk.org/download/

TO DO:

• readapt to GUI as original project did