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. How does that compare with the recurring costs of Altium?
Hi, thank you for answering, I actually found the ‘inch’ option earlier, but it’s just not so convenient and confusing as. You can only select inch or mm, mil is inches. You can change the units in Preferences->General. “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. 1.21Gigawatts September 20, 2016, 11:05am 2. pdf files.īrings up several possibilities. pdf format and there are tools to help in KiCad with extracting data for schematic symbols from. This doesnt get the drill hits but those are in Excellon format and shouldnt change. From there, you can plot the files as 274X. I want to import my Altium pcbdoc files into KiCad Pcb Editor. That said, you can open the gerber files in KiCads gerbview and export to pcbnew. 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. Im not certain that the issue from the manufacturer is one of file version. 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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