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I don't know if this is exactly what you are looking for, but you should take a look at how Miles Mccoo clones zones in his python script
https://github.com/mmccoo/kicad_mmccoo/blob/master/replicatelayout/replicatelayout.py
lines 215-224 and 15-20
Regards, Mitja


   On Monday, 27 August 2018, 13:43:26 CEST, Andrew Lutsenko <anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:  
 
 Hello Kicad team,
I'm writing a pcbnew action plugin that needs to read footprint pad coordinates and shape. I had no trouble figuring out all shapes except for custom one. It is represented by SHAPE_POLY_SET which has a corresponding python type but to get actual vertex coordinates you have to either call one of Iterate() variants or get polygon outlines with Outline(). They both return objects (ITERATOR and SHAPE_LINE_CHAIN) that are pointers and have no useful attributes. As far as I understand they just don't have corresponding swig bindings so they are not exposed properly in python.
Am I missing some obvious way to read custom pad polygon data in python?
If not, what would it take to add that?
I don't understand much about how swig configuration works but cursory glance at Kicad source suggests that there needs to be an import for shape_line_chain.h in common/swig/kicad.i
If you are curious about what the plugin does, here are some of it's results, generated from Kicad demos:http://plugindemo.bitballoon.com/1/
http://plugindemo.bitballoon.com/2/ <-- this one has a solder bridge with custom shape pads which is not rendered
http://plugindemo.bitballoon.com/3/

Above links are short lived.
Regards,Andrew
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