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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

2014-11-05 23:40 GMT+01:00 LordBlick <lordblick@xxxxxxxxx>:
> In response to a message written on 03.11.2014 15:14, from Jean-Samuel
> Reynaud:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I wrote few months ago an extension to be able to write in python a
>> footprint library plugin.
>> ie: for the moment for footprint you have to choice between:
>> - Kicad
>> - Legacy
>> - GitHub
>> ...
>> And I had write a "Python". You choose the python module to load (the
>> module name as an option of the python plugin) and this python
>> module have to implement some functions to do the job.
>>
>> This code is currently under a branch :
>> lp:~kicad-developers/kicad/python_plugin
>>
>> Specific code is mainly in pcbnew/fppython/ and there is a python
>> example in pcbnew/fppython/fppython_example.py.
>
> IMHO that plugin should be named „pyDynamicFootprint” or similar.
> Instead of creating a long library from 4 to 64 pins we can easily generate
> desired package footprint on demand.

How do you select it? There is also the footprint wizzards.