Panelizing PCB with Docker on Windows 10

[santisantis]

Hi All,
I have board I want to panelize, which I have done in KiCad 5.99 on my Windows 10 Pro PC. In order to do that I have installed KiKit using the provided docker image. After installation, I have ran the container through the Docker Desktop and a command line prompted with the following user root@.
I was hopping I could try out the kikit tool and use the following command:
kikit panelize extractboard --sourcearea 100 50 100 100 doc/resources/conn.kicad_pcb output.kicad_pcb
But in order for this to work I need to have my .kicad_pcb file stored somewhere where the container can see it. As far as I looked through the file system of the container, it seems like I am not able to reach folders which contain my PCB design.

Does anyone have any ideas how I can tackle this or if I'm doing something wrong?

I would be much obliged for any help provided.

[yaqwsx]

Does this part of the documentation help you?

To run KiKit commands for files in the current working directory issue the following command:

docker run -it -w /kikit -v $(pwd):/kikit yaqwsx/kikit /bin/bash

Note that for Windows, the docker command differs slightly:

docker run -it -w /kikit -v %cd%:/kikit yaqwsx/kikit /bin/bash

[santisantis]

Thank you for your reply. Couple of more questions. Which terminal should this command be executed in? Powershell, Windows Command Line, WSL?

[yaqwsx]

This command is for cmd or PowerShell. When you use WSL it makes no sense to use Docker - you can install KiCAD and KiKit directly.

[santisantis]

Yeah I have tried installing it initially under WSL, but there were some missing dependencies. So I switched to docker... Thanks, I will try it out