What do you do as a KiCad user who encounters a design in Altium you’d like to work with? Well as of April 3rd 2020, has merged the beginnings of a native Altium importer into KiCad which looks to be slated for the 6.0 release. It’s hard to find an exciting photo of a dialog box Altium Designer is a popular non-libre option, but at up to tens of thousands of USD per seat it’s not always a good fit for users and businesses without a serious need.

but since Altium is so vocal about getting people to change tools, it should have an importer at least.Around these parts we tend to be exponents of the KiCad lifestyle what better way to design a PCBA than with free and open source tools that run anywhere? But there are still capabilities in commercial EDA packages that haven’t found their way into KiCad yet, so it may not always be the best tool for the job. Right now I'm trying to export from KiCad to Eagle and then import the Eagle files to Altium, see if that works. Sometimes you lose a pad, sometimes it's a bit of ground plane. I've spend the entire morning generating gerbers and then importing the gerbers in Altium and converting them to PCB, but the results aren't perfect. Regarding the PCB panelizer, I need to have control over the fiducials and the frame, since it's going to be assembled off site, so I really need the PCBs on Altium.

It is not possible to import KiCad into Altium designer (or Circuit Maker).' Which is kinda sad, seeing that Altium is trying to get KiCad users to switch tools: and. I had an internal conversation about the document. I opened a ticket on the Altium support line and the response I got was: 'Thanks for your support request.

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