I even wrote a parser to convert bezier curves to their Pcbnew equivalent! Specifically text rotations are weird, fonts are unsupported and not quite right, and traces / line segments need to automatically merge (while going to SVG) and then to automatically detect lines/curves/arcs (when going back to PCB). Contribute to JarrettR/Stretch development by creating an account on GitHub. Give it a shot, submit issues / PRs, and do cool stuff with it. The workflow is intended to be seamless and painless to go back and forth. Users can start by laying out a PCB, then bring it into Inkscape to arrange a thousand LEDs into a flower arrangement, then bring it back into KiCad to lay out traces, back into Inkscape to curve the traces, back into KiCad to change their microcontroller and few pin assignments, back into Inkscape to draw out some silkscreem patterns, back into KiCad to run DRC, and so on. Much as the ideal schematic->PCB capture workflow does not exist, the PCB layout aspect must go hand-in-hand with the art aspect.
Both of these are single-direction tools. SVG-To-Shenzen is a tool to convert SVG files into KiCad files.
PCBmodE is the probably the best tool out there from a pure PCB art standpoint, but there is no schematic tool, and with that, no ability to handle extremely complex, functional PCBs. Tools intended to bridge the gap are also lacking. KiCad and other traditional ECAD software has poor support for curved lines, importing and processing of images/drawings, and many other features that can be expected in proper vector software. This was written to address some frustrations with other “artistic” PCB workflows.
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