skill
kicad10-to-altium
Public Unreviewedby barrett-land
Import KiCad 10 symbols into Altium Designer correctly. Altium 26 supports KiCad through 9 only, so a raw KiCad 10 import silently loses property visibility and every hidden field lands visible. Downgrades v10 to v9 first, then imports headlessly, links the footprint, and repairs visibility.
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{
"slug": "kicad10-to-altium",
"version": "1.5.0",
"type": "skill",
"description": "Import KiCad 10 symbols into Altium Designer correctly. Altium 26 supports KiCad through 9 only, so a raw KiCad 10 import silently loses property visibility and every hidden field lands visible. Downgrades v10 to v9 first, then imports headlessly, links the footprint, and repairs visibility.",
"tags": [
"skill",
"kicad",
"altium",
"import",
"library",
"eda"
],
"dependencies": {
"barrett-land/adom-desktop-altium-bridge": "*"
},
"scripts": {
"install": "./install.sh",
"uninstall": "./uninstall.sh"
},
"needs_sudo": false,
"discovery_triggers": [
"import kicad symbol into altium",
"kicad 10 to altium",
"kicad symbols show all fields in altium",
"altium import lost hidden fields",
"downgrade kicad 10 library",
"kicad to altium library"
],
"discovery_pitch": "Use when bringing KiCad symbols into Altium, especially from KiCad 10, or when an imported symbol shows a pile of overlapping text fields.",
"sample_prompts": [
{
"label": "Import a symbol",
"prompt": "Import this KiCad symbol into my Altium resistors library"
},
{
"label": "Fix a bad import",
"prompt": "My imported Altium symbol shows all its fields overlapping, fix it"
},
{
"label": "Downgrade a library",
"prompt": "Convert this KiCad 10 library to KiCad 9"
}
],
"hero": {
"type": "image",
"path": "docs/hero.png"
}
}