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JKCalhountoday at 1:18 PM1 replyview on HN

I like all the utility you have already built in.

My selfish suggestion would be to add support to populate the part numbers for all the components from LCSC's database. JLCPCB wants these numbers in order to assemble a PCB.

(Currently I use a JLCPCB plug-in to do this in KiCAD.)


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ViktorEEtoday at 1:27 PM

thanks! one thing we did not port is the plugin system: it's quite hard to run python on the web ( AFAIK pyodide is not enough here ) and I've heard that it will be deprecated in the next version.

The KiCad editor's state is accessible from the web app, we'll do some kind of plugin system like Figma's or just implement these functions as an overlay. We'll see, thanks for the tip!