Show HN: KiCad in the Browser(demo.pcbjam.com)

25 pointsby ViktorEE3 hours ago4 comments

ViktorEE33 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...
brokensegue18 minutes ago
Is this at all related to kicanvas.org
- ViktorEE15 minutes ago
  Nope, not at all. This is the original KiCad sources with some modifications to make it run in a browser. As far as I know kicanvas renders PCBs, we can do the whole workflow ( create a schematic => pcb => DRC checks, exports etc ).
thenthenthenan hour 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).
- ViktorEEan hour 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 ).
ViktorEE3 hours ago
Happy to answer any questions & feel free to reach out ( email in my profile )!
- JKCalhounan 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.)
  - ViktorEEan hour 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!