The KiCad Team ## Table of Contents Introduction to the KiCad Command-Line Interface ..... 2 kicad-cli commands ..... 3 Footprint ..... 3 PCB ..... 4 Schematic ..... 16 Symbol ..... 23 Version Command-Line Interface KiCad provides a command-line interface, which is available by running the kicad-cli binary. With the command-line interface, you can perform a number of actions on schematics, PCBs modern format. |NOTE|On macOS, the kicad-cli executable is located at /Applications/KiCad/KiCad.app/Contents/MacOS/kicad-cli.| |---|---| ## kicad-cli commands The kicad-cli command has 5 subcommands: fp,

Command-Line Interface KiCad provides a command-line interface, which is available by running the kicad-cli binary. With the command-line interface, you can perform a number of actions on schematics, PCBs format to a modern format. NOTE On macOS, the kicad-cli executable is located at /Applications/KiCad/KiCad.app/Contents/MacOS/kicad-cli. The kicad-cli command has 6 subcommands: fp, jobset, pcb, sch from a PCB you could run kicad-cli pcb export gerbers example.kicad_pcb. You can add the –help or -h flag to see information about each subcommand. For example, running kicad-cli pcb -h prints usage information

Command-Line Interface KiCad provides a command-line interface, which is available by running the kicad-cli binary. With the command-line interface, you can perform a number of actions on schematics, PCBs format to a modern format. NOTE On macOS, the kicad-cli executable is located at /Applications/KiCad/KiCad.app/Contents/MacOS/kicad-cli. The kicad-cli command has 6 subcommands: fp, jobset, pcb, sch from a PCB you could run kicad-cli pcb export gerbers example.kicad_pcb. You can add the –help or -h flag to see information about each subcommand. For example, running kicad-cli pcb -h prints usage information

The KiCad Team ## Table of Contents Introduction to the KiCad Command-Line Interface ..... 2 kicad-cli commands ..... 3 Footprint ..... 3 PCB ..... 4 Schematic ..... 12 Symbol ..... 17 Version Command-Line Interface KiCad provides a command-line interface, which is available by running the kicad-cli binary. With the command-line interface, you can perform a number of actions on schematics, PCBs modern format. |NOTE|On macOS, the kicad-cli executable is located at /Applications/KiCad/KiCad.app/Contents/MacOS/kicad-cli.| |---|---| ## kicad-cli commands The kicad-cli command has 5 subcommands: fp,

can be saved as plaintext (.rpt) or in JSON format. NOTE DRC reports can also be generated by the kicad-cli tool in either text ( .rpt ) format or JSON. Front Side Back Side Total model, distinct from the surrounding metal. If this additional thickness is not wanted, you can use kicad-cli with the –no-extra-pad thickness option to export a 3D model without the additional pad thickness generation of output files for multiple variants. To export Gerber files for a specific variant: kicad-cli pcb export gerbers –variant “WiFi-only” my_board.kicad_pcb To generate output for multiple variants

The file extension for ERC report files is .rpt. NOTE ERC reports can also be generated by the kicad-cli tool in either text ( .rpt ) format or JSON. Assigning Footprints Before of schematic output for one or more variants. To export a schematic PDF for a specific variant: kicad-cli sch export pdf –variant “WiFi-only” my_project.kicad_sch To generate output for multiple variants specify –variant more than once and use ${VARIANT} in the output path to produce separate files: kicad-cli sch export pdf \ –variant “WiFi-only” \ –variant “WiFi-BT” \ -o “schematic_${VARIANT}.pdf” \ my_project