DOPΣ - isnt kicad mod supported? or how does it...
isnt kicad mod supported? or how does it work any working example?
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It is supported, there is a change in architecture it seems currently. This should be resolved in sometime. I am waiting for @Seve response
is this handled by core or footprinter/?
No, this wouldn't work in the footprinter repo. The fetch is done in the
evaleval is saying this? is it implemented or not
I know, it is implemented 😂. The platformConfig is being over writen in runframe
too much complex 😢 , im trying this7
What is the issue you are trying to solve?
GitHub
Support direct import of kicad_mod files · Issue #768 · tscircuit...
We could theoretically support direct import of kicad_mod files for people who have local kicad libraries. Figure out how to make bun have a custom import handler for a kicad_mod file Modify tscirc...
i need example or something that is expected so i can test if my implementations are correct
You can get kicad mod files from the official kicad repo or the kicad-mod-cache.tscircuit.com
RE: Your approach with converting the kicad_mod to circuit json inside eval. This would work but I'd like to not build in too much kicad-specific functionality especially at that stage where it's hard to catch errors (you're doing it at a sort of import resolution stage)
Instead, i think your should introduce something to props/eval's platformConfig like footprintFileParserMap: { kicad_mod: { parserFn: ... } } }
Inside core, we can then call the
footprintFileParserMap.kicad_mod.parserFn when we get a URL (all static file imports are converted to URLs)
hopefully that makes sense @DOPΣ , what i've proposed will make tscircuit more extensible for other types of footprint files