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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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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/.fsch or 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.