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Adom for KiCad

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The one map of everything Adom can do with KiCad. Read this when the user has KiCad open (or a .kicad_pro / .kicad_sch / .kicad_pcb / .kicad_sym / .kicad_mod is present) and you need their options: dr

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Adom for KiCad

One map of every Adom surface, app, skill and EDA tool that works with KiCad.

This is a hub page. 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. For KiCad, this page is the answer: it is the complete, current menu of options, and every row hands off to the canonical tool that does the work. Its dependency graph is the toolkit — each dependency is one surface below.

Sister hubs: Adom for Fusion 360 · Adom for Altium. All three belong to the adom/eda family.

When this fires

The user has KiCad running (Adom Desktop's bridge can confirm), or the workspace holds any of: *.kicad_pro, *.kicad_sch, *.kicad_pcb, *.kicad_sym, *.kicad_mod, sym-lib-table, fp-lib-table.

Options at a glance

Intent Tool You get How to invoke
Drive KiCad live adom/adom-desktop-kicad-bridge Open editors, DRC/ERC, install libs, export gerbers/STEP/PDF, 3D viewer, screenshots adom-desktop skill, kicad_* verbs
View a board (no KiCad) kyle/kicad-pcb-viewer Pan/zoom .kicad_pcb, layer toggles, in a webview Hydrogen webview app
View a footprint in 3D adom/fp3d-viewer Extruded pads, labels, land-pattern overlay for .kicad_mod skill
Manage libraries adom/kicad-library-manager Read/edit their sym-/fp-lib-table, live JLCPCB stock, sync w/ backups webview app
Browse & add from wiki adom/adom-project-manager Add wiki components/boards into the KiCad library webview app
Import external ZIPs kyle/adom-kicad-library-importer SnapEDA/SamacSys/UltraLibrarian ZIP → KiCad CLI via bridge
Source a part (full) adom/adom-chip-fetcher .kicad_sym + .kicad_mod + STEP + datasheet CLI
Source a part (fast) adom/chip-fetcher-lite Wiki-first staging; upload only what's missing app
Curated basics adom/adom-basic-parts Passives / common SMD, symbol+footprint+3D skill
Adom machine parts barrett-land/adom-library-importer Install Adom pins/contacts into KiCad skill
Price / stock / datasheet adom/adom-parts-search Mouser+DigiKey+JLCPCB data (no CAD) CLI + webview
Make a symbol adom/adom-symbol .kicad_sym + viewer app
Make a footprint adom/adom-footprint .kicad_mod + layer HUD app
Translate a library adom/adom-lbr Altium/EAGLE/Fusion ⇄ native KiCad app
Datasheet → CAD adom/adom-ds2sf PDF → symbol + footprint + provenance app
STEP → GLB (3D) adom/adom-step2glb Color-preserving GLB CLI
Chip icons / outlines adom/adom-chip-thumbnailer Icons, shaded 3D, vector outlines from STEP app
Validate footprint vs 3D adom/adom-chipsmith Pin-1 (chip+fp), EP vias, bake .step/.glb app
Donut / NPTH pads adom/kicad-donut-pad Annular pads for MEMS/vented packages skill
Publish as a molecule adom/kicad-export-molecule → molecule-publish STEP export → OCCT molecule → wiki component page skill chain
Shared backend adom/service-kicad Headless KiCad 10 the tools shell to infra

The surfaces, grouped

Drive it live. Adom Desktop's KiCad bridge is the reverse bridge into the user's real KiCad — the richest of the three bundled bridges. Open every editor, place parts, install symbol/footprint libraries, run DRC/ERC, export manufacturing files, open the 3D viewer, and grab window screenshots. Forward path is kicad-cli; the reverse path is an in-process plugin.

See it without opening it. kyle/kicad-pcb-viewer renders a .kicad_pcb in a Hydrogen webview (pan/zoom, layer toggles, flip); adom/fp3d-viewer shows a .kicad_mod's pad geometry in 3D. And every published part or board already renders interactive symbol + footprint + 3D viewers natively on its wiki component page — no download needed to look.

Manage the user's own libraries. kicad-library-manager (klm) reaches into their machine through the bridge, reads their personal sym-lib-table / fp-lib-table, lets you edit fields inline with live JLCPCB stock/price, add parts from the wiki, and sync to disk with reversible backups. adom-project-manager browses wiki boards/projects and adds components into the KiCad library.

Source parts. adom-chip-fetcher pulls a full manufacturer-grade CAD bundle for an MPN (KiCad symbol + footprint + STEP + datasheet), sourcing manufacturer data first and falling back down a ladder. chip-fetcher-lite is the fast, wiki-first sibling — check the wiki, upload only what is missing. Any published component page hands over a typed KiCad downloads grid.

Create & export CAD. adom-symbol and adom-footprint produce native KiCad .kicad_sym / .kicad_mod with live viewers. adom-lbr translates a part between Altium / EAGLE / Fusion and KiCad through one canonical JSON. adom-ds2sf turns a datasheet into symbol + footprint. adom-step2glb, adom-chip-thumbnailer, and adom-chipsmith cover 3D conversion, icon/outline rendering, and footprint validation (pin-1 on both the chip and the footprint, EP heatsink vias). kicad-donut-pad generates annular NPTH pads for MEMS mics and vented packages.

Publish as a molecule. kicad-export-molecule exports the board's STEP via the bridge and hands it to molecule-publish, which does the OCCT conversion, packaging, and wiki publish — producing a component page whose downloads and viewers any teammate can use, and which adom-molecule-import pulls into Hydrogen.

The toolkit (dependencies)

Every surface above is a declared dependency of this page, so the Dependencies tab is a live, clickable inventory of the KiCad toolchain. Installing this hub pulls the whole set; or install just the one row you need.

Notes for maintainers

  • Canonical slugs are pinned deliberately. A few older duplicates exist on the wiki (adom/step2glb, adom/chip-thumbnailer, adom/adom-altium-schlib, adom/adom-concur) — this page points only at the current ones. See the EDA audit for the full list.
  • service-kicad is shared infrastructure; it is listed for completeness but is not something an end user invokes.