pcb-rnd(1)

💖 pcb-rnd — the manual, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, and let me tell you about pcb-rnd — it's a Printed Circuit Board editor, and yes it comes with its own manual page (pcb-rnd(1), the pcb-rnd manual, iconic behavior). it's giving "I'm a whole tool and I have receipts". let's go 🦋

✨ SYNPOSIS ✨

pcb-rnd [options] [inputfile]

✨ DECSRIPTION ✨

so. pcb-rnd is a modular PCB editor 🎀 and its whole main character moment is interactive editing.

if you don't hand it a -x on the command line, it just… opens the graphical editor mode. no questions, no drama, straight to the GUI.

but here's the thing — you can do automated, headless processing too, and that's where -x or --gui batch come in. lowkey obsessed with the flexibility ngl 💅

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --help topic — prints help about topic and then exits. if you're out here with no topic at all, it prints the available topics instead, like a little menu of what it knows. so helpful of it fr fr 🫶
• -x exporter [exportflags] inputfile — instead of doing interactive editing, this exports the design (loaded from inputfile, duh) to a file using the exporter plugin you named. and because one flag is never enough, a list of exporter-specific parameters may follow to control the details of the process. customization? we love her ✨
• --gui hid — uses the hid plugin for the "gui" frontend. common choices are:
  • gtk2_gdk or lesstif — for graphical user interfaces 🖥️
  • batch — for a headless command-line interface (or automated batch processing) 🧚
• -c path=val — sets a config node in role CFR_CLI. the node's path is path (like editor/grid) and the shiny new value is val (like 5mm). tiny flag, big power 💜

reminder bestie: nothing here is vibes-only — every flag, value and default above is exactly what the tool does. no cap 🎯

and that's the whole page, periodt 👑

💖 this has been pcb-rnd(1) from the pcb-rnd manual, dated 2018-01-01, brought to you by the pcb-rnd(1) girlies. go build something cute 🌸⭐