KiCad Art

Putting logos on a kicad board isn't terribly hard, just slightly annoying.

Approach for copper/mask taken from komar's techblog, but I couldn't get the tooling to work.

svg2mod fork for python3 support turns an svg into a .kicad_mod file.

• pip3 install git+https://github.com/zirafa/svg2mod

Summary

• Vector image in inkscape.
• Make it a path, where the fill actually fills it
• Resize to the final size (with a few mm spacing)
  • Object -> Transform
• Name layer Cu
• Duplicate layer, name Mask
• Make mask slightly bigger
  • Path -> Outset works
    • Step size in Preferences -> Behaviour -> Steps -> Inset/Outset by
• Path -> Break Apart
• Edit -> Resize Page to Selection
• svg2mod -i input.svg -o output-filename --name module-name -p 1

• Update 2018-11-12: Add header image
• Update 2019-07-12: Redo instructions
• Update 2020-10-14: Add specifics