KiCad - the KiCad Bridge

Tour: footprint install leaves an identical file untouched (mtime bump made KiCad's cache look stale on every tour after the first); per-beat startedAt and narrationAt on the record for syncing a recording

Tour: editor and viewer windows at 98 percent of the work area, centered (John)

Tour: all editor and viewer windows at 95 percent of the work area, centered; 2D motion aims at the featured part (position parsed from the board and schematic) and checks the canvas after each gesture; 3D motion re-frames when the board is clipped or tiny

Footprint open: when the Footprint Editor's Library Tree pane is hidden, show it through the frame's own View menu (plugin wm_command) before navigating; arav-rog had it hidden and every load failed

Footprint open: never restart KiCad for a stale cache when the editor never opened (plugin_not_running restarted KiCad twice on arav-rog); tour footprint beat ensures pcbnew is open and its plugin alive; window rows carry minimized/image so 'in front' skips minimized windows

Tour: a brand-new footprint restarts KiCad during prepare (before any window), never mid-beat; the footprint beat waits retryAfterMs on kicad_restarted_retry

Tour: a brand-new footprint restarts KiCad during prepare (before any window), not mid-beat; install_footprint reports existedBefore; the footprint beat waits retryAfterMs on kicad_restarted_retry

Tour: 'in front' ignores shell popups, minimized windows and our own overlays (arav-rog measured RustDesk minimized and PopupHost as the top window); footprint beat retries twice without the plugin wait; 2D motion recenters when a pan or zoom empties the canvas

Tour: leave KiCad's main window as KiCad opens it; footprint beat waits for the project manager plugin and retries (cold KiCad on arav-rog failed both footprint beats)

Tour: read the unwrapped desktop_list_windows payload (verify and foreground worked off a local list with no z-order on arav-rog); beat captions bottom-left clear of the demo panel; small top captions announce each foreground and the acks

Wiki #48: the 20 s idle healer measured window reachability against the primary monitor only and pulled windows on a second monitor back to the primary; it now measures against the monitor the window overlaps

Tour remote: dashboard presses recorded, acked with a caption, and honoured at the next gesture like panel presses

Tour remote: FIFO press queue (no press lost), poll-drained presses recorded, presses on progress

Tour remote: prev/next/pause cut the beat in flight at the next gesture; back goes to the beat before the one on screen; presses and acks recorded

Tour layout: restore a window's bounds before the tour closes it so KiCad's sticky geometry is never corrupted

Tour layout: read the unwrapped desktop_list_monitors payload so windows are placed in their 80 percent slots

kicad_demo layoutProbe diagnostic; layout uses the monitor work area

Fix: demo.py lacked the json import used by the new window-bounds save/restore (0.9.310 would have silently skipped saving bounds).

Tour layout for the recording (John): each beat's window is placed at 80% of the primary screen in its slot (symbol upper-left, footprint nudged, chip 3D upper-right, schematic lower-left nudged, board 2D lower-left, board 3D lower-right) and the KiCad manager is centered at its own size; every bound is saved first and restored at the tour's end, stop, failure, or the next start (leftovers file), so KiCad's sticky sizes end up as the user had them. Every caption's reply is recorded on progress; a press on the remote gets an immediate acknowledgement caption at the top of the screen; the settle check waits up to 8 s for two identical captures instead of sampling once.

Tour 3D beats no longer end with Zoom to Fit: in KiCad's 3D viewer that command also resets the orientation, so the board beat ended top-down on John's laptop; the beat now ends on the isometric it built (zoom in/out net to zero, framed at the opening fit).