Quick start

If you want to learn by examples, or you just want to take a look at what KiBot can do, you can use the --quick-start command line option.

First change to the directory where your project (or projects) is located. Now run KiBot like this:

kibot --quick-start

This will look for KiCad projects starting from the current directory and going down the directory structure. For each project found KiBot will generate a configuration file showing some common outputs. After creating the configuration files KiBot will start the outputs generation.

Here is an example of what’s generated using the following example repo.

You can use the generated files as example of how to configure KiBot. If you want to just generate the configuration files and not the outputs use:

kibot --quick-start --dry

If you want to know about all the possible options for all the available outputs you can try:

kibot --example

This will generate a configuration file with all the available outputs and all their options.