Start a new project

KPY is KiCad's bundled Python, and board.py is in kicad-board-edit's folder (see that skill). sch.py is in kicad-schematic's folder.

Get these from the user or the design notes:

• Board: size and shape, and what fixes them (the enclosure, holes, edge connectors).
• Layers and thickness.
• Fab and assembly: which fab, and hand or machine assembly. The bundled rules, jobsets and fab checks are JLC's; for another fab, set its minimums with set_rules() and pass its rule files to check.py --rules-dir (named like the bundled ones; see kicad-check).

Steps

The project name is the shared stem of the .kicad_pro, .kicad_sch and .kicad_pcb files.

1. Board, project and outline: