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What is a .kicad_pro file?

A .kicad_pro is a KiCad project file - the JSON settings that tie a schematic and board together, with the design rules and net classes. Created and opened by KiCad.

Did you know
  • Since KiCad 6 the project file is JSON, holding the net classes, design rules and layer presets the schematic and board share.
  • The .kicad_pro ties the schematic and board together and stores the design rules - track widths, clearances and net classes - they must both obey.
  • Being JSON, the project file is human-readable and diffs cleanly, fitting KiCad's design of plain-text, git-friendly project files.
What Analyser shows you
Open KiCad schematics, circuit boards, footprints and projects in the browser. Analyser parses the S-expression documents - schematics (.kicad_sch), boards (.kicad_pcb), symbol libraries (.kicad_sym) and footprint modules (.kicad_mod), including the "-bak" backups - and rebuilds the geometry as an interactive vector view: schematic symbols, wires, junctions and labels, or the board outline, copper tracks, pads, vias, zones and silkscreen, with pan, zoom and per-layer visibility toggles. It reads the project settings (.kicad_pro / .kicad_prl JSON) with its net classes, the library tables, the footprint cache and the ngspice simulation workbook (.wbk), and plots the SPICE simulation waveforms (.raw) from KiCad/ngspice or LTspice - decoding the analysis type, variables and samples to chart the traces or tabulate an operating point. Dropping a whole project folder opens every document together as one design with a combined bill of materials that cross-probes each part to its symbol on the schematic and its footprint on the board. Nothing is uploaded.
Open a .kicad_pro file
Drag a .kicad_pro file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It opens entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.