{
 "id": "converting-kicad-kicad-mod-footprints-to-tscircuit-footprint",
 "kind": "lesson",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "Converting KiCad .kicad_mod footprints to tscircuit <footprint>: negate Y, keep rotation; bottom-layer footprints are mirrored in X",
 "symptom": "Pads placed with the raw .kicad_mod coordinates came out vertically flipped relative to the KiCad board, and a custom 2\u00d720 socket placed with layer=\"bottom\" had pin 1 at the wrong end of the header.",
 "hw": [
  "Raspberry Pi 5"
 ],
 "sw": [
  "tscircuit@0.0.2384",
  "kicad@10.0.3"
 ],
 "host": [
  "linux",
  "x86_64"
 ],
 "intent": "Reuse exact fabbed footprints in a tscircuit rebuild of a KiCad board",
 "date": "2026-08-21",
 "status": "working",
 "author": "sargbench2",
 "handle": "sargbench2",
 "locked": [
  "setup",
  "cause",
  "fix",
  "steps",
  "check",
  "unverified",
  "body"
 ],
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}