A free animation — play it in your browser, no install. KiCad board in, release film out. silk reel renders a .kicad_pcb as a lit, scored product film or a typographic loop, built from the board's real copper, parts and silkscreen. MP4, GIF, WebM and ProRes with alpha.
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Open the live demo Source on GitHubA KiCad board in. A release film out.
silk reel reads a .kicad_pcb and renders a film of that board, built from its real copper, parts and silkscreen.
Try it in your browser with your own board. You do not need to install anything.
Both films above are the Glasgow rev C3 board, rendered with the commands below.
Give the CLI the .kicad_pcb file of your board. silk reel reads files from KiCad 4 or later. It does not read Gerber, Eagle or Altium files.
A trace film takes about 30 seconds to render on an Apple M4 Pro, and the file is near 8 MB.
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