7/8/2023 0 Comments Convert kicad to altium![]() (A '3030' package, comparable to offerings from Cree and Lite-on and Lumileds and - I thought - my LCSC-sourced Everbright.) The stock library footprint was produced in 2016 for a nominally equivalent package from a different manufacturer. But just two weeks ago I had a board problem because my selected LED had a slightly different leadframe and pad geometry than the library version. It's been a decade since I've had a problem with a buggy footprint from a default library (contrasted with quite a few buggy footprints I made myself). Everyone has different, ephemeral needs for purchasing and stocking as long as your footprint matches what's on the invoice you're fine. They're not technically faulty, just incomplete. It has excellent support for a few of the most popular formats and very patchy support beyond that. However to call KiCAD’s support for EDA file formats in general “excellent” feels disingenuous. I don’t expect parity, I’m aware of the challenges and appreciate both the complexity and even the difficulty of getting hold of these files in the first place for reverse engineering. ![]() ![]() Blender has done an excellent job of supporting otherwise proprietary formats originally developed for and used by software with a median cost in excess of $1000USD (if not that price per year in some cases). Sometimes even better than the original tools for the formats were. ![]() I’ll compare it to Blender, where the support for all but the most ludicrously esoteric formats has been developed and in many cases is still maintained. And KiCAD has little support for many of them.įor instance I most recently came across OrCAD, yet another EDA tool I have never even heard about it before, it’s proprietary format locking away design information and thus requiring tedious and error prone reconstruction of what is otherwise a completely open design. There are dozens of poorly documented EDA project formats and unfortunately they are usually associated with expensive software. It needs a LOT of long term work to expand this capabilities. KiCAD has good compatibility with a very small number of file formats.
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