Python API cannot read copper thickness from stackup
Python scripts cannot read copper thickness or stackup data from KiCad 10 because the stackup API is incomplete.
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4 public reports · first reported 7 October 2026 · last reported 7 October 2026
What's going wrong
People writing Python scripts for KiCad want the copper thickness of a trace, but the stackup object in the scripting interface exposes only generic methods and returns errors when they try to list stackups.
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