Show HN: KiCad in the Browser

(demo.pcbjam.com)

23 points | by ViktorEE 2 hours ago

4 comments

  • brokensegue 1 minute ago
    Is this at all related to kicanvas.org
  • ViktorEE 16 minutes ago
    To open a demo board click "Open" in the Projects/Demo board section then "Open in PCB Editor" at demo.kicad_pcb in Files.

    Next time I'll make a smoother demo...

  • thenthenthen 48 minutes ago
    Small suggestion, it would be nice to see the total size of the download during the first load (sry I am on a slow metered connection).
    • ViktorEE 46 minutes ago
      Yea, I'll add it in the next deploy. Thanks! Right now it's about ~30 MB for the big app ( 2 editors + footprint + symbol ).
  • ViktorEE 2 hours ago
    Happy to answer any questions & feel free to reach out ( email in my profile )!
    • JKCalhoun 1 hour ago
      I like all the utility you have already built in.

      My selfish suggestion would be to add support to populate the part numbers for all the components from LCSC's database. JLCPCB wants these numbers in order to assemble a PCB.

      (Currently I use a JLCPCB plug-in to do this in KiCAD.)

      • ViktorEE 57 minutes ago
        thanks! one thing we did not port is the plugin system: it's quite hard to run python on the web ( AFAIK pyodide is not enough here ) and I've heard that it will be deprecated in the next version.

        The KiCad editor's state is accessible from the web app, we'll do some kind of plugin system like Figma's or just implement these functions as an overlay. We'll see, thanks for the tip!