Altium Designer MCP Server

Example Use Cases

• 1

  Read and write Altium Designer footprint and symbol libraries programmatically.

• 2

  Automate creation and modification of PCB component footprints and schematic symbols.

• 3

  Extract and manage embedded 3D STEP models from Altium libraries.

Description

This MCP server acts as a bridge between AI assistants and Altium Designer libraries, handling file reading/writing and primitive placement while the AI manages design intelligence such as IPC-7351B calculations and package layout decisions. It supports operations on both footprint (.PcbLib) and symbol (.SchLib) libraries, including reading, writing, validating, deleting components, extracting 3D STEP models, and exporting/importing libraries in JSON or CSV formats. This facilitates AI-driven automated component creation, editing, and management workflows for PCB design.