SnapEDA launches new KiCad plugin to help engineers design electronics faster
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SnapEDA launches new KiCad plugin to help engineers design electronics faster

Today, SnapEDA - a company that helps engineers design electronics faster by removing barriers - is launching a new KiCad plugin, allowing designers to search and download its computer-aided design (CAD) models directly within the KiCad PCB design environment. KiCad is a free and...

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Convert EasyEDA files to KiCad with just one click
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Convert EasyEDA files to KiCad with just one click

Uri Shaked has just unveiled the result of his work on a script that is able to convert the cloud-based design tool EasyEDA files to the popular KiCad format. This way you are able to benefit the best characteristics of the two design tools and easily migrate from one tool to the...

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Top 10 +1 Free PCB Design Software for 2021
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Top 10 +1 Free PCB Design Software for 2021

After the official birth of commercial EDA since 1981, different design software as been produced from the EDA industry. Printed Circuit Boards, also known as PCBs, are the foundation of any hardware-based product. Before EDA software, Engineers usually designed electronics circuitry and...

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Digi-Key announces supplier-driven KiCad Library
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Digi-Key announces supplier-driven KiCad Library

Digi-Key Electronics has announced the release of a new secondary KiCad library, known as the Digi-Key Partner Library, on GitHub. This is intended to be a supplement to the existing Digi-Key KiCad library released last year. Whereas the previous library was developed and curated by...

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Samtec releases over 100,000 new models on SnapEDA
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Samtec releases over 100,000 new models on SnapEDA

Electronics designers can boost their productivity with free symbols & footprints for Samtec products Samtec is releasing new digital models for over 100,000 of its products on SnapEDA, the industry-leading circuit board design library. Traditionally, designers have spent days...

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Digi-Key launches a common parts library for the KiCad EDA Tool
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Digi-Key launches a common parts library for the KiCad EDA Tool

Digi-Key Electronics has announced that it is in beta release of a library containing almost 1,000 common parts for the open-source KiCad schematic capture and PCB tool. By Ally Winning @ eenewsembedded.com: The library will be hosted on the Digi-Key website. It was built after...

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PcbDraw – KiCAD board into a nice looking 2D drawing
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PcbDraw – KiCAD board into a nice looking 2D drawing

Convert your KiCAD boards into nice looking 2D drawings suitable for pinout diagrams. Never draw them manually again! [via] Jan Mrázek created a Python script that takes a KiCAD board (.kicad_pcb file) and produces a 2D nice looking drawing of the board as an SVG file. This small...

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Export Eagle Libraries With SnapEDA
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Export Eagle Libraries With SnapEDA

Although the new Eagle subscription model by Autodesk will bring much-needed features to the software, many users after the announcement had decided to move their work to other alternatives, such as KiCad, Altium, Cadence, etc. One of the challenges was to convert the libraries made...

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