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Installing ecoEDA on KiCad

Installations

Install [[https://www.kicad.org/|KiCad 7]]
Install Python3
- Once installed, make sure to install the following libraries
  - pip3 install python-osc
  - pip3 install sexpdata
Download this repo

Setting up ecoEDA

First, go to /Applications/KiCad/KiCad.app/Contents/SharedSupport/scripting/kicad\_pyshell (Windows: C:\Program Files\KiCad\7.0\share\kicad\scripting\kicad\_pyshell)
- If you're on mac and confused, right click on the KiCad App to see these folders.
Replace the __init__.py with the one from ecoEDA (in the folder ecoEDA/code/kicad-files/).
Change line 43-44 in __init__.py to reflect the location of your ecoEDA directory. For windows do the same for PyShell_eeschema_startup.py (Windows for example: self.ecoEDA_dir = "C:\\Users\\<USER_NAME>\\Desktop\\ecocad\\" self.fp_dir = "C:\\Program Files\\KiCad\\7.0\\share\\kicad\\footprints")
Via your CLI, you'll need to install a few packages in KiCad's specific Python. Go to /Applications/KiCad/KiCad.app/Contents/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/bin (Windows: C:\Program Files\KiCad\7.0\bin\Scripts)

Then do :

./pip3.8 install wxPython
./pip3.8 install python-osc
./pip3.8 install sexpdata

(may be pip3.9 instead of pip3.8)

Then on your python in terminal, you need to install this two packages:

./pip3.8 install python-osc
./pip3.8 install sexpdata

Running ecoEDA

Make sure you have a KiCAD project and at least one component (e.g., R) on the schematic.

You'll need to run scripts locally (i.e. via a CLI/Terminal) and initiate a script in KiCad.

In one CLI instance, run client.py. You should do so with the command - python3 client.py --file <.KICAD_SCH file you are workin on>
In another CLI instance, run server.py. You should do so with the command - python3 server.py --file <.KICAD_SCH file you are workin on>

For example:

Last, press the PyShell button in KiCad. It's in the top right corner.

When you open it, this should pop up: