Fields are not exported to PCB

[Psirus]

When I add a field to a part as in the documentation (lm35.fields['new_field'] = 'new value'), the field will get exported to the netlist with generate_netlist(), but not to the PCB generated with generate_pcb().

Is there an option I am missing? Alternatively, do you know of a way to update the netlist with the pcbnew python API if I simply export both PCB and netlist from skidl?

By the way, module 'skidl' has no attribute '__version__', but pip says I have version 1.2.3 installed.

Lastly, thanks for your work, this is such a cool project.

[devbisme]

It appears there is a shortcoming in the kinet2pcb utility/library: it only processes a few part fields (like ref and value) when generating a PCB. I'll have to take a look at it.

I don't know if PCBNEW will allow you to update an existing PCB with the netlist having all your custom fields. You may just have to go with generate_netlist() and then import it into PCBNEW rather than using generate_pcb().

[tapegoji]

I faced the same issue. I think it would be a great feature to have. I am pretty familiar with kinet2pcb code. I can take a look as well and see if I can get it working that way. Let me know Dave. I don't want to do something if you are working on it already.

[devbisme]

That would be a great help! If you do this, make your changes to the development branch of kinet2pcb.