Assembly variants switcher for KiCAD 6 and 7.

Install in KiCAD command prompt via pip:

$ pip install -U git+https://github.com/yaqwsx/KiCAD-assembly-variants@main

All commands should be invoked from KiCAD command prompt.

The alternative properties are expected to follow <variant_prefix> <property name>. That is, if you want to have alternative values for Value, you can have extra property fields, e.g., variant1 Value and variant2 Value.

On variant switching, the corresponding alternative field value is copied to the original one.

The following special attributes names map to KiCAD built-ins:

• Value
• in_bom (yes/no)
• on_board (yes/no)
• dnp (yes/no)

If you want to switch variant in place, just invoke:

$ kiAsm switch --prefix variant1 path/to/project/directory

You can specify multiple fields to change and only single prefix. Instead of --field you can use -f and instead of --prefix you can use -p

If you want to export multiple variants, you can use the export command:

$ $ kiAsm export --prefix variant1 --prefix variant2 path/to/project/directory path/to/output/directory

This command will create directories variant1 and variant2 in the output directory and a copy of the project with switched corresponding variant will be copied there. The original project is not modified.