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What bet­ter way to round off the week than to take a lit­tle time to look at an inter­est­ing work­bench that pro­motes inter­ac­tion between FreeCAD and KiCad PCB’s. 

Pre­sent­ed at KiCon North Amer­i­ca recent­ly Mor­gan Allen has been work­ing on KiCon­nect. In his fas­ci­nat­ing talk Mor­gan looks at some of his pre­vi­ous projects where PCB’s were used as con­struc­tive pan­els in designs fuelling the need for a more inter­ac­tive link between FreeCAD and KiCad. Towards the end of the talk we get to see glimpses of real­ly pow­er­ful work­flow ideas, for exam­ple Mor­gan shows updat­ing an edge cut lay­er line in KiCad to change the shape of the board out­line and this is automag­i­cal­ly updat­ed in the FreeCAD pre­view. We look for­ward to see­ing KiCon­nect develop.