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Automatic PCB generation? #72

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Supermagnum opened this issue Aug 16, 2020 · 0 comments
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Automatic PCB generation? #72

Supermagnum opened this issue Aug 16, 2020 · 0 comments

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Supermagnum commented Aug 16, 2020

Since the position of the holes for the switches is known, there should be possible to add a utility that places the footprints of the switches on a PCB according to the geometric layout of the keyboard halves.
Placement on the pins for ALPS switches:
https://matias.ca/switches/click/blueprints/3.jpg
Cherry switches:
https://www.cherrymx.de/en/dev.html

Hybrid footprints for Kicad ( he should have used a oval hole, its easy to spot where )
https://github.com/ai03-2725/MX_Alps_Hybrid

Kicad has a python API:
https://docs.kicad-pcb.org/master/en/plugins/plugins.html

mostley referenced this issue in mostley/blender-dactyl-keyboard Nov 14, 2021
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