![]() There is an ongoing discussion, so perhaps there are some alpha/beta-testers of it.įor BOM – we are finding information in the Altium database as well as KiCad. KiCad eeschema-nightly currently does not support importing Altium schematics. In our task, we found a very useful post on the KiCad blog that explains how to import an Altium PCB design file in Kicad.Īpparently the Altium Importer is not available if you start PCB window from the KiCad project manager window, you have to start it from the command line as pcbnew-nightly to get the KiCad import feature for loading alien formats. We were pleasantly surprised by members of the KiCad team that promptly answered our call for volunteers able to help us in the source translation process, thank you guys, it was really much appreciated! To achieve the porting of the sources, we first tried loading the Mentor Xpedition sources using the PCB Design Software Altium, and from there, export the sources to KiCad. Providing source files created with a proprietary software is not ideal, therefore we have worked to convert the sources to the Open Source KiCad format. I think it makes more sense to make a review of KiCad and make a list of pro’s and cons and then decide if it is suitable for what you want to do with it.At the beginning of March the consultant engineer paid using the donation campaign provided us with the Mentor Xpedition source files of our PCB. How does that compare with the recurring costs of Altium? “Uconfig” seens to be specifically written for KiCad.Īnother one uses “Tabula” with a bit of custom python to aid in the conversion:Ĭonverting your libraries is also a one-time thing. pdf files.īrings up several possibilities. pdf format and there are tools to help in KiCad with extracting data for schematic symbols from. ![]() Something like the above would need some way of communicating your existing library to someone else, and one of the ways to do that is by printing all library symbols to a. If you don’t want to spend much time converting your own altium libraries to KiCad (it’s pretty boring work), then maybe you can use the cost of a single year of Altium use as a budget to hire someone to do the conversion for you. ![]()
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