There is an ongoing discussion, so perhaps there are some alpha/beta-testers of it.įor BOM – we are finding information in the Altium database as well as KiCad. KiCad eeschema-nightly currently does not support importing Altium schematics. In our task, we found a very useful post on the KiCad blog that explains how to import an Altium PCB design file in Kicad.Īpparently the Altium Importer is not available if you start PCB window from the KiCad project manager window, you have to start it from the command line as pcbnew-nightly to get the KiCad import feature for loading alien formats. We were pleasantly surprised by members of the KiCad team that promptly answered our call for volunteers able to help us in the source translation process, thank you guys, it was really much appreciated! To achieve the porting of the sources, we first tried loading the Mentor Xpedition sources using the PCB Design Software Altium, and from there, export the sources to KiCad. Providing source files created with a proprietary software is not ideal, therefore we have worked to convert the sources to the Open Source KiCad format. The result of copper area will be different, please check carefully.At the beginning of March the consultant engineer paid using the donation campaign provided us with the Mentor Xpedition source files of our PCB.

After PCB is imported, it will automatically rebuild and copper area.

KiCAD has updated the document format since KiCad v5.1.3, if the import fails, please try a previous version.

The PCB design rule is not supported yet.

For the KiCAD special symbols such as Power symbol (Power Flag(PWR_FLAG)), EasyEDA will convert them as the symbol not Netflag, you can delete them if you don’t need them.

If you want to import the schematic, you must ZIP the schematic and symbols together, we suggest using the KiCAD archive tool when opening the project in KiCAD, it will include the symbols in the ZIP file automatically.

If you only want to import the PCB, you just need to ZIP the PCB file and then import it.

The KiCAD project files need to be compressed as zip file before importing.

EasyEDA supports importing KiCAD v4.06 and greater version KiCAD files, if the KiCAD files version is less than v4.06, please open them with the latest KiCAD and save as a new one, and then import them.

Export kicad to altium