This tool creates PCB coils that can be either directly inserted into the PCB itself, or exported as a footprint. The UI can be accessed from within the PCB editor:
(The button for the UI is located within the addon section)
This UI contains all relevant PCB coil settings to generate any desired coil.
By pressing the Generate Coil button, a new coil footprint is generated and inserted into the board. It can be moved freely but it has no schematic symbol attached to it. This makes it a bit tricky with netlists.
(Generated coil inside the PCB editor)
Once a fitting coil has been generated, that coil can be stored on disk as a footprint. The coil generator creates a new footprint library in the project's folder named PCB Coils (pcb_coils on disk) that is automatically set as project library in the current project.
(Footprint automatically exported can be viewed in the footprint editor)
Note: KiCad sometimes does not detect the addition of a new library to the project. A restart of the program fixes that issue.
- Rewrite of the generator code, as it is currently based on a two layer implementation that was only extended for 4 layers
- Add more layer support
- Add support for stretched coils
- Add support for rectangular coils
- Display coil statistics in the UI, similar to TI's implementation