DOPΣ - isnt kicad mod supported? or how does it...

isnt kicad mod supported? or how does it work any working example?

Rishabh•9/16/25, 1:01 PM

It is supported, there is a change in architecture it seems currently. This should be resolved in sometime. I am waiting for @Seve response

DOPΣOP•9/16/25, 1:20 PM

is this handled by core or footprinter/?

Rishabh•9/16/25, 1:20 PM

No, this wouldn't work in the footprinter repo. The fetch is done in the

DOPΣOP•9/16/25, 1:23 PM

eval is saying this? is it implemented or not

Rishabh•9/16/25, 1:31 PM

I know, it is implemented

. The platformConfig is being over writen in runframe

DOPΣOP•9/16/25, 1:33 PM

too much complex

, im trying this7

Rishabh•9/16/25, 1:34 PM

What is the issue you are trying to solve?

RRishabh What is the issue you are trying to solve?

DOPΣOP•9/16/25, 1:42 PM

https://github.com/tscircuit/tscircuit/issues/768

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...

DOPΣOP•9/16/25, 1:42 PM

i need example or something that is expected so i can test if my implementations are correct

Seve•9/16/25, 3:13 PM

You can get kicad mod files from the official kicad repo or the kicad-mod-cache.tscircuit.com

DDOPΣ too much complex 😢 , im trying this7

Seve•9/16/25, 4:16 PM

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 when we get a URL (all static file imports are converted to URLs)

Seve•9/16/25, 4:17 PM

hopefully that makes sense @DOPΣ , what i've proposed will make tscircuit more extensible for other types of footprint files