impliment svg import directly onto pcbnew/footprint editor

[zakhar nasimov]

svg is a popular and open format for graphics unlike dwg/dxf. it would be ideal to permit users to import graphics directly to any layer, including copper layers, within pcbnew and footprint editor. currently users must import graphics thru bitmap to kicad mod tool which is tedious, dxf/dwg imports directly without bitmap to kicad mod tool with no issues, it would be ideal for svg, an open graphics format to be imported in the same manner.

[Rene Poeschl (poeschlr)]

There are (at least) two external tools out there that can help you until this is implemented. There is svg2mod [1] which is a command line tool converting inkscape svgs to kicad footprints and there is the inkscape extension svg2shenzhen [2].

Both rely on inkscape layers to define the kicad layer.

[1]https://github.com/mtl/svg2mod
[2]https://www.gabetaubman.com/blog/posts/kicad-custom-footprint/

[Nick Østergaard (nickoe)]

This already implememted as experimemtal advanced_config.