Making nice-looking and interactive diagrams for your PCBs

This is a well-executed tool.<p>I hesitate to criticize, but I think it&#x27;s a step backwards for usability in the current form. Having to individually mouse over every single pin to see what it does is the least efficient way to find the pin I need.<p>Ideally, the tool would show all of the pin short labels and then allow me to hover over to highlight connected nets and show the full description.

This is a very impressive start. It has the potential to be extremely useful. I would suggest making this into something like codepen, but for PCBs. Then makers and professionals alike can copy-paste unique urls around the internet of their circuits diagrams and ideas, forum posts, etc, etc. Could have lots of utility in education as well.<p>And starting from the open source KiCAD community is just gold. Well done.

Is there a good way to find a pin when I know what I&#x27;m looking for?<p>Say I&#x27;m looking for 3v3. I can tick pins, then power, and .. about a third of the pins on the board are highlighted. Then I need to hover over each one to see which it is, like a 2004 dhtml menu.

Extremely neat. It does make a couple of use cases much harder though, like finding a GPIO pin that isn&#x27;t needed for I2C or whatever. The diagram at the top is very well colour coded so I&#x27;m not sure I agree that it&#x27;s too much information at once.<p>I definitely agree it breaks down when you have as many pins in random places as the example board though. I would provide both if you have time.<p>Excellent work anyway!

Can I print it?<p>I love the pighixxx diagrams because they sit on my desk while I&#x27;m working on a board; the board atop the printed sheet and I can make notes on it.

Nice work!<p>A mirror-mode for the flipside would be very useful. I often mirror one side of a board when I&#x27;m trying to understand exactly what&#x27;s going. It makes it much easier to understand where traces go if you don&#x27;t have to perform the flip step in your mind, especially when reverse engineering a board.<p>I also agree with the other posters about the usefulness of an exploded see-all-the-pins-at-once view.

Searching for jumpers, bridges, wire annotations or anything really in PDF schematics is such a PITA (CTRL-F then look for the tiny blue highlight). It would be great if MCU vendors would do something like this for their entire eval boards&#x27; schematics.

I&#x27;m building a Commodore 64 at the moment, and the interactive BOM here is a very very helpful tool, it&#x27;s the same idea as this one, but includes traces and part descriptions: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;htmlpreview.github.io&#x2F;?https:&#x2F;&#x2F;raw.githubusercontent.com&#x2F;bwack&#x2F;C64-250407-Replica-KiCad&#x2F;main&#x2F;interactive-bom&#x2F;ibom.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;htmlpreview.github.io&#x2F;?https:&#x2F;&#x2F;raw.githubusercontent...</a>

Pretty cool and useful. I wonder why you wouldn&#x27;t extract the assembly layer for the footprint outlines though, rather than needing to draw things. That way, if you were OK with that look, you&#x27;re done, and if you wanted something more detailed you could just update the footprint and then it would be part of that footprint in your library for future uses.

I was just looking at this tool the other day. I was likewise inspired by the Pighixxx art and was looking to see what tools were out there to generate such a thing (pighixxx is all done in illustrator)<p>I think I’d like something that could import brds, I also just take a pin list and a package name and generate the pins.

Very cool, and useful. I&#x27;ll try it out on my next PCB.