PCB design · Stream Deck plugin

KiCad Hotkeys

Routing is a two-handed job. The settings you change mid-trace live under your left hand, so the mouse never has to stop drawing.

236commands
23categories
8dials
6bundled profiles

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What it does

Eight dials on a device that has four: they split across two profile pages, Board and Navigate.
The layer and zoom dials paint live faces on the touch strip, so the strip shows the real value rather than the last one it saw.
Covers the Schematic Editor, the PCB Editor, the 3D Viewer, and Gerbview, and switches deck pages automatically when you move between editors.
Six bundled profiles, one per device. The 15-key deck and the XL open on a hub of 23 color-coded category keys with all 236 commands already wired, and the Stream Deck + XL adds a numeric value pad.

What you need

Windows 10 or later, Stream Deck software 6.9 or newer, and KiCad 10.

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Support

Good to know

Click the canvas once after switching windows: KiCad's drawing canvas only listens to the keyboard after a mouse click inside it.
Keys apply to whichever editor is focused, schematic or board.

True of every plugin we make

Every key carries the app's own shortcut for that command, and every key is remappable. Type your combination into the property inspector or click Capture and press it once. Where an app leaves a command unbound, the key still reaches it by the route that app exposes.
Keystrokes go to the front window and nothing steals focus, so keep the target app in front when you press.
Every command has its own drawn key art, so the deck reads at a glance instead of listing shortcuts.

Read the full quick fixes, or see this plugin on the support hub.

Still stuck? Email [email protected] with the plugin name, your Stream Deck software version, and what you pressed versus what happened. A human answers.