JLCKicadTools

Overview

JLCKicadTools is a tool aims to work with JLCPCB assembly service featuring KiCad 5.

See this blog post for instructions.

Python 3.7+

pip install git+https://github.com/matthewlai/JLCKicadTools

In case you do not have pip installed. See:

sudo dnf install python-pip

sudo apt-get install python-pip

JLCKicadTools comes as a nice command line interface named kicad-jlc-tool. To see how it works just simply issue at your shell prompt:

$ jlc-kicad-tools

Why are some components in the generated files but don't show up on JLCPCB preview?
- Make sure there are no non-ASCII characters in any of the fields. See: https://github.com/matthewlai/JLCKicadTools/issues/45