pyAltiumLib 0.6.1 Documentation

PyAltiumLib is a tool to read Altium Designer library files. The included components are extracted. Metadata such as the description and the name of the component can be listed. It is also possible to visualize the component using the svgwrite package.

Note

This documentation is build for PyAltiumLib 0.6.1, last updated Jun 23, 2025.

Quick links: GitHub - Documentation - Python Package

This tool is created based on the details given in several open-source repositories:

• Altium-Schematic-Parser

• Altium Library Parsing

• Altium schematic file format

• AltiumParser

• python-altium

• AltiumSharp

Introduction

• Installation & Usage Guide
• Contributing and Coverage

API Reference

• Library Classes
• Component Classes
• Datatypes Classes
• Records Classes

Altium File Format

• File Structure
• Data Types
• Primitives and Records