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Requirements for plate generator

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#47 opened on Jan 19, 2026

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Description

There are dedicated plate generators out there:

kle-ng already supports basic PCB project generation (since v0.22.0) and it would be cool to support plate generation as well but I wanted to gather user feedback first:

  • what are a weak points of above projects?
  • what would kle-ng plate generator have to do, to improve on existing solutions?

I actually never used any of plate generators myself.

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Research direction
Research the listed plate generator projects (kbplate.ai03.com, builder.swillkb.com, plate.keeb.io), analyze their features and limitations, and provide feedback on what a new plate generator in kle ng should focus on to improve upon them.
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typescript
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web devtooling
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Keyboard layout knowledge
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