


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.
