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24 alternatives to Export PCB Footprints and Symbols to Mentor Graphics PADS
Hi folks, we just released the ability to export our library of schematic symbols and PCB footprints to Mentor PADS. This is a beta release so it would be great to get your feedback. To try it, search for a part on SnapEDA (http://www.snapeda.com), click download and then select "PADS" as the format. You can try it out on this part here directly if you prefer: http://www.snapeda.com/parts/PIC32MX250F128B-I/SS/Microchip/view-part/
SnapEDA now supports exporting electronic component symbols and PCB footprints in Mentor Graphics PADS format. Users can search for parts on the SnapEDA platform, download them, and select PADS as their export format… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Export PCB Footprints and Symbols to Mentor Graphics PADS launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Automatically build parts with computer vision.
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Get Any Symbol & Footprint in 1 Business Day.
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Sketch 42▲284Now with export presets, touch bar integration, and more
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One-click export of Figma prototypes to GIF, webM or MP4
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Download free symbols, PCB footprints, and 3D models for thousands of TE Connectivity components. The largest source of verified PCB libraries.
2018 · snapeda.com · its alternatives →
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I got DOOM running in KiCad by rendering it with PCB traces and footprints instead of pixels. Walls are rendered as PCB_TRACK traces, and entities (enemies, items, player) are actual component footprints - SOT-23 for small items, SOIC-8 for decorations, QFP-64 for enemies and the player. How I did it: Started by patching DOOM's source code to extract vector data directly from the engine. Instead of trying to render 64,000 pixels (which would be impossibly slow), I grab the geometry DOOM already calculates internally - the drawsegs[] array for walls and vissprites[] for entities. Added a…
Nov 2025 · mikeayles.com · its alternatives →
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I found myself reaching for SF Symbols' 'Copy Image As…' quite often during agentic design sessions, so I made a command-line tool that the agent can use by itself. It exports Apple SF Symbols as SVG, PDF, or PNG. The vector paths come directly from macOS's symbol renderer. Internally it reaches a private ivar on NSSymbolImageRep to get the CUINamedVectorGlyph, draws into a CGPDFContext, then walks the PDF content stream back out as SVG `d` commands. The output matches what the system draws, rather than an approximation traced from rasters. A few things about it: - Every subcommand accepts…
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Shape.so▲2901350+ icons, illustrations exportable to SVG, React & Lottie
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Hey HN! I'm Zach from Adam (https://adam.new/). We’re building an AI co-pilot for mechanical CAD software. As part of our broader research, we built a browser-based Text-to-CAD app (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44182206) and are now open sourcing it. This is a React SPA with a Supabase backend. What it does: * Generates parametric 3D models from natural language descriptions, with support for both text prompts and image references * Outputs OpenSCAD code with automatically extracted parameters that surface as interactive sliders for instant dimension…
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Export your Figma designs to Sketch or Adobe XD files
2020 · figma.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! This is a little project to generate PCB footprints from text descriptions. It works by teaching an LLM a compressed DSL representation for footprints. I think this is generally a good technique if you're trying to get LLMs to work on spatial problems. Right now I'm focused on reproducing footprint shapes, but after that I'll benchmark the correctness of the footprints using % overlap on known package descriptions, as well as a kicad_mod export I built this because I realized I needed to use AI to help tscircuit catch up to the decades of electronic design tool progress that I'm not…
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Import and make Figma designs really interactive with UXPin
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Hi HN, founders of VibeFlow (YC S25) here. We mostly work on backend and workflow tooling, but we needed a way to turn Figma designs into frontend code as a kickstart for prototyping. It takes a Figma frame and converts it into React + Tailwind components (plus assets). If you want to try it: You can run it locally or use it via the VibeFlow UI to poke at it without setup (https://app.vibeflow.ai/)
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Recolor icons and export the SVG files to PNGs
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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