Coalesce can now import a KiCad printed circuit board and rebuild its outline, cutouts, drilled holes, and thickness as three-dimensional reference geometry. The model stays visible to the mechanical designer but is excluded from manufacturing exports. That distinction lets an enclosure or mounting plate be designed around the real board without accidentally treating the board itself as another part to manufacture.
The importer reads KiCad's lines, arcs, circles, slots, and nested outlines, then regenerates a solid with stable references back to each source feature. Tests cover rotated oval holes, holes that fall inside cutouts, separate board islands, and invalid open outlines. The same commit keeps the reference board out of Standard for the Exchange of Product model data (STEP) files, the common format used to pass three-dimensional parts between computer-aided design tools, and prevents later modeling operations from consuming the imported board as editable material.
The remaining risk is change management: the board is a saved snapshot, so a KiCad edit doesn't silently alter the mechanical model. Teams have to request a refresh, which is the safer default, but Coalesce still needs a clear review of what moved after that refresh. If it adds a readable geometry diff, enclosure teams could update from the board file without asking the electrical engineer to prepare another export.