An utility to generate a PCB starting from DXF files.

Its main dependency is the module pcbnew provided by KiCad, this means that you must have Python 2.7 and KiCad installed on the system. You can follow these instructions:

• On Ubuntu simply run these commands and after the installation the module pcbnew will be available to the Python 2.7 interpreter:

  sudo apt install python2.7 kicad
  python2.7 -m pcbnew && echo "pcbnew installed!"

  • If you are going to use a virtual environment be sure to inherit this package from the global installation, if you use pipenv simply add --site-packages option when installing the virtual environment:

    # without --three options it doesn't recognize --site-packages option
    pipenv --three --site-packages install

This repository contains two modules dxfgenerator, used to generate the dxf files for each face of the given solid, and pcbgenerator for the generation of the pcb designs from the dxf files. The two modules are designed to be used in a pipeline where the output of the first one can be used as input of the second module.

Starting from an obj representation of the solid you first use dxfgenerator to create a dxf file for each face of the solid.

python -m dxfgenerator

dxfgenerator currently is able to generate dxf files for just one type of octahedron and all parameters are statically included inside the script.