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This looks amazing. I'm going to give this a try later.

If I have a DXF or something of the outline of something (a PCB in this case) can I import it and build around it somehow?

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Only step import at the moment. I'll add svg next.

My particular immediate use case would be to export the board outline and mounting holes from a kicad project (SVG or DXF, whatever works) and build a chassis for it. Obviously I can do this in freecad but I've been looking for an intuitive cad-as-code system to check into git instead. So this would be awesome!

While not code as CAD, Dune 3D has the creation of enclosures for electronics projects as its _raison d’être_, and has a facility for Python scripting:

https://docs.dune3d.org/en/latest/python.html

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