kicad10-to-altium
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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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adom-wiki skills install barrett-land/kicad10-to-altiumImport KiCad symbols into Altium Designer correctly, especially from KiCad 10. Altium 26's importer supports KiCad through 9 only, so a raw KiCad 10 import silently drops property visibility and every hidden field arrives visible, piled on top of the symbol. It also imports text in its own font and colour rather than Altium's. Downgrades the library to KiCad 9 first, imports headlessly via the AdomBridge extension, links a real footprint model, normalises font/size/colour to Altium's defaults, and repairs visibility on already-broken symbols. Use when importing KiCad parts into Altium, when an imported symbol shows overlapping text, when imported parts look different from hand-made ones, or when converting a KiCad 10 library. Trigger words - kicad to altium, kicad 10 altium import, altium import overlapping fields, hidden fields visible after import, imported symbol wrong font, downgrade kicad 10 library, kicad symbol into altium library.
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