Adom for EDA
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The top of the map for every EDA tool Adom works with. Read this the moment you find the user in an EDA tool (KiCad, Fusion 360, or Altium) — or when Hydrogen Desktop's setup thread asks 'what EDA doe
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The top of the map for every EDA tool Adom works with. Read this the moment you find the user in an EDA tool (KiCad, Fusion 360, or Altium) — or when Hydrogen Desktop's setup thread asks 'what EDA does the user have and what are their options?' — and route to the right per-tool hub: adom/kicad, adom/fusion, or adom/altium. Each hub is the full menu of live bridges, viewers, library managers, sourcing, CAD creation and molecule publishing for that tool.
adom-wiki pkg install adom/eda
Latest: v1.0.0, published
Dependencies 3 skills
- skill adom/kicad ^1.0.0
- skill adom/fusion ^1.0.0
- skill adom/altium ^1.0.0
Adom for EDA
The top of the map for every EDA tool Adom works with — KiCad, Fusion 360, and Altium.
When Hydrogen Desktop finishes installing, it opens an AI thread that explores what EDA tools the user has and what they can do with them. This page is where that thread starts: detect the tool, then hand off to its hub. Each hub is the full, current menu of Adom surfaces for that tool, and its dependency graph is the toolkit.
The three hubs
| Hub | For | The menu it opens |
|---|---|---|
| Adom for KiCad | KiCad | Live bridge · board & footprint viewers · library manager (klm) · chip sourcing (.kicad_sym/.kicad_mod/STEP) · symbol/footprint/3D creation · validate · molecule publish |
| Adom for Fusion 360 | Fusion 360 Electronics | Live bridge · APS cloud · update libraries (keep silk) · chip sourcing (.lbr) · JLCPCB & Hydrogen export · molecule publish |
| Adom for Altium | Altium Designer | Live bridge (add parts) · read .SchLib/.PcbLib → KiCad · write native .IntLib (adom-lbr) · chip sourcing (.IntLib) · molecule publish |
Detect, then route
Ask the desktop bridge which EDA windows are open, and scan the workspace:
- KiCad — a KiCad window, or
*.kicad_pro/.kicad_sch/.kicad_pcb/.kicad_sym/.kicad_mod,sym-lib-table,fp-lib-table→ go to adom/kicad - Fusion 360 — a Fusion window, or
*.f3d/.f3z/.fbrd/.fschor a Fusion/EAGLE*.lbr→ go to adom/fusion - Altium — an Altium window, or
*.PcbDoc/.SchDoc/.PrjPcb/.SchLib/.PcbLib/.IntLib→ go to adom/altium
More than one open? Route to each. None detected but the user wants PCB work? Offer the three and ask which they use.
Coverage at a glance
| KiCad | Fusion 360 | Altium | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Live desktop bridge | ✅ | ✅ | ⚠️ part-add works; OutJob→PDF blocked |
| Web viewer | ✅ 2D board + 3D footprint | ✅ STEP | via wiki component page |
| Library manager | ✅ klm + Project Manager | ✅ Project Manager | ✅ Project Manager |
| Chip sourcing (native lib) | ✅ .kicad_sym+.kicad_mod |
✅ .lbr |
✅ .IntLib |
| Symbol / footprint creation | ✅ adom-symbol/footprint | ✅ adom-symbol/footprint | via adom-lbr (only Altium writer) |
| Validate footprint vs 3D | ✅ chipsmith | ✅ chipsmith | ✅ chipsmith |
| Molecule publish | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Shared, EDA-neutral tools
Some tools feed all three and appear on every hub: the chip fetchers
(adom-chip-fetcher, chip-fetcher-lite), the wiki component page system
(one MPN → KiCad + Fusion + Altium + OrCAD downloads with native symbol/footprint/3D
viewers), adom-lbr (the library translator), adom-ds2sf,
adom-step2glb, adom-chipsmith, adom-parts-search (price/stock/
datasheet data), adom-basic-parts, and the molecule chain
(molecule-publish / molecule-pipeline / adom-molecule-import).
Notes
- The three hubs are members of this eda family (see the family panel).
- This page and the three hubs were created in the 2026-07-17 EDA wiki audit, which also flagged a set of stale/duplicate tool slugs to retire — see the audit report for canonical calls.