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I have a new installation of KiCad Version: 6.0.4+dfsg-1~bpo11+1, release build, python3

Getting an error:
line 167, in Run

    167                 mod.SetOrientationDegrees(rotation)
TypeError: in method 'FOOTPRINT_SetOrientationDegrees', argument 2 of type 'double'

Changing line 166 from
166 rotation = props['rotation']
to
166 rotation = props['rotation'][0]
gets the first element of the list into the rotation variable and the plugin works.

Is there any interest in adding file dialogs to this plugin to allow selecting a file with the placement yaml as well as dumping yaml to a file that stores all the part placement info?

Created based on feedback in Issue #3

Sometimes, when using the script with kicad nightly, it would fail with `TypeError: in method 'FOOTPRINT_SetPosition', argument 2 of type 'VECTOR2I const &'.

This is because nightly builds use a different type for positions. The plugin does a version check for '6.99' to handle this, but it seems
some versions of KiCad nightly, on some platforms, report a the version string enclosed in parenthese and these aren't handled by the plugin.

It seems like this tool uses the page origin and not one of the origins the user can set.
This makes it hard to have a PCB thats properly placed on the sheet when using this plugin.

I currently fixed this locally, but I am not sure how the version checking works. I am on 6.0.11 and it seems to pick the wxPoint path, even though the comment says that newer should use Vector2I.

https://github.com/mcbridejc/kicad_component_layout/blob/master/component_layout_plugin.py#L152

grid_origin = pcb.GetDesignSettings().GetGridOrigin()

## Latest needs a pcbnew.VECTOR2I, 6.0.1 needs wxPoint
if use_vector2:
    mod.SetPosition(pcbnew.VECTOR2I_MM(x0 + x, y0 + y))
else:
    mod.SetPosition(pcbnew.wxPointMM(x0 + x, y0 + y)+grid_origin)

Kind regards,
Riesi

Thanks for this script, it saves a ton of time and improves the accuracy of my layout.

Could you add an example of a script which generates the layout.yaml file? If you can't get to this soon, I'll build one and send it to you.

I'm currently building the text in a spreadsheet and copy-pasting it into the text file, which is tedious.