I believe this close collaboration between Altium and parts manufacturers will produce design IP that our customers can trust ‘out-of-the-box’, and adds significant value to being a member of the Altium design community. All components in the Würth Elektronik libraries include the schematic symbol, the PCB footprint and a detailed 3D model for 3D mechanical integration during PCB design.įrank Krämer, Technical Marketing Director for Altium in EMEA, commented, “Altium is moving into a new model of partnership to provide third party libraries, templates, reference designs and other ready-to-use IP for our Altium Designer users. In a close collaboration between its passive components unit and Altium, they developed and prepared a full set of libraries for Würth Elektronik’s passive components that is ready to use within Altium Designer. Würth Elektronik is Europe's largest manufacturer of EMC components, inductors, transformers, RF components and circuit protection devices. Electronic designers will have access to eight new libraries comprising over 1,500 passive components provided by one of the leaders of EMC solutions for the electronics industry. 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.Altium announces a comprehensive set of passive components from Würth Elektronik is available for Altium Designer 10 through the recently launched AltiumLive portal. 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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