# KiConnect

KiCAD 9 API Workbench

## What works
* Create board
* Add Vias
* Add footprint pads
* Import footprint 3d models
* Reload outline after changed in KiCAD
* Push outline back to KiCAD (requires KiCAD 9.0.2)
* Can be used in FreeCAD Assemblies

## In Progress / To be ported

### Tracks
Tracks can be loaded and drawn as simple `LineSegment` but more work is needed to draw properly 'widthed', and particularly whilte trying to eliminate overlapping lines.

### More Pad Shapes
Only rectangle get drawn right now, would like to figure out how to get Sketcher to do the heavy lifting

### Sync to KiCAD
In theory this code is mostly working but there seems to be an [issue in kicad-python](https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad-python/-/issues/34)

## Plans

### Add more board features
Currently refactoring similar objects to common base class, this will enable easily including other board elements (text, graphics, )

### Package as proper FreeCAD add-on

### Mutliboard support
Hope to support this one of several ways, depending on the future of KiCAD/API
* KiCAD supports multi-document, API include `get_boards()`
* `kicad-cli` supports full API, spin up instances as needed
* Manually switch between KiCAD projects and import new boards
* socker-per-project but this seems messy

### Panelization
In it's most basic form, this will probably utilize `kikit` to assist in basic panelization but in multiboard projects it will assist in panelizing differnt boards into one panel.

### Syncronize all the things!
Syncing selections is fairly straight forward, but long term it would be awesome to have everything sync as their changed.