KiCad IPC footprint generator

Licence: GNU GPLv3+

This set of python scripts generates standard footprints for a variety of components and uses IPC naming convention as main source of information. So to add a new resistor package for a chip resistor you would typically only need to add an identifier like "RESC1508X04N" for a 1508 (0603) resistor of height 0.4 for standard board density (N). The scripts will then generate kicad footprint as well as simple 3D model (currently just a box) using FreeCAD python interface.

It thus becomes easy to change a large number of footprints and the best thing is that footprints can all follow a well defined standard.

Note however that there is no guarantee that any given footprint follows IPC standard precisely, however over time and with people's contributions we can probably get it really close.

You will need FreeCAD installed to build vrml models.