KiCad - the KiCad Bridge

@@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ Every verb of this build (319, `kicad_describe` is the live catalog with inputs, | `kicad_3d_view` | Drive the 3D Viewer without the mouse: zoom, rotate, view orientation, flip, or a scripted tour; menu commands posted to the viewer in the background. | | `kicad_3d_viewer_settings` | Read or set the 3D viewer's model-visibility toggles (SMD, through-hole, virtual, not-in-POS, DNP) that can hide every chip body. | | `kicad_add_body` | Put a 3D body (a STEP or VRML model) on a library footprint. It REPLACES the footprint's models unless keepExisting:true, so a re-import never stacks a second body. |-| `kicad_add_symbol_art` | Draw adom-symbol's chip outline into a symbol (the standard's add_symbol_art). Not in KiCad: The chip outline is baked into the KiCad symbol itself by adom-symbol: KiCad shows it with no second copy to draw (Altium needs this because its symbol is rebuilt from KiCad's). |+| `kicad_add_symbol_art` | Draw artwork (polylines: a chip outline, a logo) inside a library symbol's body rectangle, scaled to fit with a margin and centred, keeping its aspect; the art comes as point lists or from another symbol's polylines (adom-symbol's baked chip outline). | | `kicad_agent_recover` | Recover a halted script agent (the standard's agent_recover). Not in KiCad: KiCad has no resident script agent to manage: the bridge reaches KiCad through kicad-cli, its built-in IPC API and KiCad's own Python per call, so there is nothing to start, stop, check or recover. | | `kicad_agent_start` | Start the tool's resident script agent (the standard's agent_start). Not in KiCad: KiCad has no resident script agent to manage: the bridge reaches KiCad through kicad-cli, its built-in IPC API and KiCad's own Python per call, so there is nothing to start, stop, check or recover. | | `kicad_agent_status` | Report the tool's resident script agent (the standard's agent_status). Not in KiCad: KiCad has no resident script agent to manage: the bridge reaches KiCad through kicad-cli, its built-in IPC API and KiCad's own Python per call, so there is nothing to start, stop, check or recover. |@@ -494,10 +494,10 @@ Every verb of this build (319, `kicad_describe` is the live catalog with inputs, | `kicad_bridge_status` | Retired: the in-KiCad Python plugin (reverse bridge) is not part of the native bridge. Reports that, plus what replaced each of its jobs. | | `kicad_build_board` | Build a NEW board from a parts list and a netlist: the outline (a rectangle with rounded corners allowed, or a polygon), every footprint from its library placed by its own origin, pad nets assigned, saved; then read back pin by pin. | | `kicad_build_schematic` | Draw a design's schematic from its netlist with library symbols, as a new sheet (and project): one column per block, every part placed, a wire stub and a net label on every connected pin, the title block filled; then KiCad's netlist of it checked against the nets given, pin by pin, and ERC run. |-| `kicad_build_symbol_modes` | Build a symbol with N display modes from a symbol_modes spec (the standard's build_symbol_modes). Not in KiCad: KiCad symbols have two body styles (standard and De Morgan), not N display modes, and nothing in KiCad reads Altium's symbol_modes spec. |+| `kicad_build_symbol_modes` | Give a library symbol its De Morgan alternate body (KiCad's second display mode): the alternate drawing for every unit, the standard body's pins copied with any pin shapes changed (inverted inputs), and the symbol marked as having two body styles. | | `kicad_check_for_updates` | Read-only: installed KiCad vs latest stable. | | `kicad_check_orientation` | Advisory: two-pad parts whose rotation could be better. Each part is scored at 0, 90, 180 and 270 degrees by airline length (a net's spanning tree, or for a plane-like net the distance to its nearest pad); parts whose best turn saves minImprovementMm are listed. Nothing is moved. |-| `kicad_cleanup_libs` | Remove a new library's factory-default stray part (the standard's cleanup_libs). Not in KiCad: A new KiCad library starts empty, so there is no factory-default stray to remove. |+| `kicad_cleanup_libs` | Clean a symbol or footprint library: the parts no given project uses, and parts that repeat another part under a different name (same pins and graphics, or same pads and graphics). A plan by default; apply removes the names you list. | | `kicad_click` | Click at coordinates inside a KiCad window. | | `kicad_clone_symbol` | Copy a symbol inside a .kicad_sym under a new name, every unit and body style included. | | `kicad_close` | Close KiCad (editors first, then the project manager). |