For that reason, it’s also central to the open hardware movement. KiCad’s ethos is to make electronics accessible and open. Specifically for KiCad, we’ve seen 345% growth of design activity over the last 3 years. Over the last few years, we’ve seen it growing at the same year-over-year rate as the industry’s leading PCB tools in terms of design activity in our professional PCB design community. KiCad is a free, open-source PCB design software that has been gaining popularity in the PCB design industry. We’re releasing a new KiCad Plugin to allow engineers to search, discover, and download content for electronic components directly from within the software where they’re designing PCBs. Today, we’re excited to announce a new offering from SnapEDA, that will make it even easier for engineers to access CAD content. Over the years we’ve stayed true to our mission by releasing tools that improve the productivity of electronics designers, such as: InstaPart, our 24h symbol & footprint request service InstaBuild, our free computer-vision based CAD model creation tool and InstaVerify, our real-time CAD model verification checker (watch for updates on this front soon!).Īll of these tools are aligned around our mission of helping engineers design faster.

Today, we’re grateful to serve over 1 million engineers each year, most of whom use SnapEDA at work.

In 2013, we launched our search engine devoted to electrical engineering CAD content (symbols, footprints, simulation models, etc.) with the hypothesis being that if we could provide engineers with the building blocks they needed to design electronics faster, they could spend more time designing and innovating the products that impact our world.įlash forward to 2020. At SnapEDA, our mission from the beginning has been to help engineers design electronics faster by removing barriers.

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