Not sure this is the right spot, but I’ve made a tool to convert 2D KiCad cad models you download from, say, digikey to a Fritzing part (schematic, pcb, etc) for easy import. It’s just a web based react native app, drag and drop stuff.
Early results seem effective, but I haven’t tested many parts. Looking for just a few experienced users to give some feedback.
Thanks
Hello, I’d be interested in that. Do you have a quick guide for it? I’m not that familiar with KiCad. I actually installed the program for this one reason (KiCad_to_Fritzing), but haven’t made any progress with it yet.
Should note this is only, at this time, for IC’s. Its a bit more than just “drag and drop”, but really only requires light tweaking. Still a lot less painful than designing a part from scratch or editing an existing part.
PCB/footprint behaving well. Matching Ultra Librarian dimension overlays… Will continue to refine but getting close to an almost perfect translation
All that matters is KiCad is a common model that places like mouser/digikey will provide for download when you are looking at IC parts. Since the majority of the work has already been provided by the manufacturer, it only makes sense to use those files with a translator to Fritzing. It should speed up dev because there are models practically for every chip still in production.
You don’t even need to consider the KiCad platform to utilise the models, what i’m trying to make is a translator to get one format into another, like the Eagle → Fritzing tool historically.
