KiCad forum (community)ECADConfidence: Medium

The KiCad Fabrication Toolkit plugin's BOM and position file formats are rejected by JLC's JLCone ordering app, so makers wrote their own Python converters, and KiCad 11 drops the API the plugin uses.

Impact Analysis

Persona

Electrical Engineer

Team Size Impact

5x Multiplier

Prototype Delay

3 Days

Est. Annual Cost

$30,000

1 user · 1 month240 min
Rest of team960 min
Rest of year13,200 min

monthly_minutes × 12 × team_multiplier ÷ 60 × $75/hr = $30k/yr

$75/hr assumed rate.

Annual team-minutes decomposed from the reported monthly inputs.

Evidence & Sources

1 Sources

KiCad.info Forums: Fabrication Toolkit not compatible with JLCone (required BOM)

forum.kicad.info

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Analyst Notes

From the Grok pain-radar digests, Oct 27-28 2026 (Oct 27 8:41 AM ET through Oct 28 7:41 AM ET digests plus the Haitch editions). Verified live 2026-10-28: issue/PR/thread read; title and state confirmed.