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Guides, tutorials, and resources to help you get the most out of Neurocad.

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What is Neurocad™?

Engineering teams spend more time reconstructing design intent across tool boundaries than doing forward design. Neurocad™ is the intent compiler that closes that gap — turning datasheets, PDFs, reference designs, and images into native, parametric assets in Altium, Cadence, SolidWorks, and Autodesk. No intermediate formats. No re-entry. The AI describes. The kernel executes.

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What is Neurocad Link?

Neurocad Link is the desktop bridge that delivers native, design-ready assets straight into your existing CAD tools like, Altium, KiCad, SolidWorks, and more.

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Download and install Neurocad Link

Neurocad Link is a desktop companion app that maintains a live connection between Neurocad and installed CAD applications including Altium, Cadence, SolidWorks, Fusion 360, and Inventor. When a recipe completes, Neurocad Link fetches the asset and delivers it directly into the active tool — no file download, no manual import, no save-and-reopen. Zero re-entry at the desktop boundary.

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Video tutorial: Capture a schematic symbol and PCB footprint from a datasheet

This walkthrough shows the full Library Parts workflow in Neurocad™: uploading a datasheet, capturing symbol and footprint images, generating a multi-part artifact, editing in the artifact editor, and sending design-ready files directly into your EDA tool. No manual entry. No redraw. The export process works the same way across all supported tools.

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Video tutorial: Getting started with Neurocad

New to Neurocad™? This tutorial walks you through everything you need to get up and running: from signing in and installing Neurocad™ Link, to running your first workflow and sending a native asset directly to your EDA tool. No prior experience required. Follow along at your own pace and have your environment ready before your next design session.

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Your first artifact in Neurocad

This guide walks you through signing in, installing Neurocad Link, connecting your CAD tools, and generating your first artifact from a datasheet.

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Signing in to Neurocad for the first time

Signing into Neurocad™ for the first time is simple. Check your email for a temporary passcode, then follow the prompts to create your own password. Login with an MFA code emailed to your inbox, and you're in!

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Neurocad recipe workflow

Recipes are Neurocad's node-based workflow builder. Use them to customize how Neurocad extracts, interprets, and exports your engineering data. This guide covers the recipe workflow from file input to native artifact in your EDA or CAD tool, including how to build, run, and reuse recipes for batch processing and automation.

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Video tutorial: Generate schematic symbols in seconds with Neurocad

Stop rebuilding schematic symbols from scratch. Neurocad reads your datasheet, extracts the component data, and generates a native, parametric schematic symbol directly in your EDA tool — no manual re-entry at any step. This video shows you exactly how it works: from source file to design-ready asset in Altium, KiCad, or Cadence. The AI describes. The kernel executes. You review and approve before anything enters your design.

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Video tutorial: Generate PCB footprints in seconds with Neurocad

Stop rebuilding footprints from scratch. Neurocad reads your datasheet, resolves the dimensions, and generates a native, parametric, DRC-valid PCB footprint directly in your EDA tool — no manual re-entry at any step. This video shows you exactly how it works: from source file to design-ready asset in Altium, Cadence, or KiCad. The AI describes. The kernel executes. You review and approve before anything enters your design.

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Recovery phrase

Your Neurocad account is protected by two layers of security — your account credentials and a recovery phrase. This page explains how both work and what to do if you lose access.

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Artifacts. Your library of design-ready assets

Artifacts is where you manage and send your design-ready assets to your tools. Every schematic symbol, PCB footprint, and 3D model Neurocad has generated for you. Browse what your recipes have produced, preview any output before it leaves the system, modify as you wish, and send finished assets directly into Altium, Cadence, SolidWorks, or Fusion.

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Recipes and nodes

Recipe nodes

This guide covers the node types available in the recipe palette and explains the workflows each one supports.

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Using nodes

Nodes are the building blocks of every Neurocad recipe. This guide covers how to add, connect, and configure them to build workflows that move engineering data from source to native CAD asset.

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Send to desktop node

The Send to Desktop node pushes finished recipe outputs directly to Altium, Cadence, Fusion, SolidWorks, or Inventor. Set up your machine, check the connection status, and dispatch — no manual import needed.

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Recipe automations

Deploying a recipe turns it into a server-side automation that runs without manual input. This guide covers how to configure, deploy, and manage automated recipe workflows in Neurocad.

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What is design intent?

Design intent is everything behind a design decision that a file doesn't carry — the constraints, the reasoning, the physics. Neurocad™ captures it at the source, surfaces it for your review before anything is generated, and propagates it as native, parametric assets into the tools you already use. No reconstruction at any boundary.

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Connections

Slack connections

The Slack integration lets recipes listen for events and slash commands in your Slack workspace.

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Github connections

The GitHub integration lets recipes listen for repository events through the Neurocad GitHub App.

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Desktop Applications

Neurocad Link and how it works

Neurocad Link pushes finished designs straight into Altium, SolidWorks, Fusion, Inventor, and Cadence the moment a recipe finishes. No download, no manual import, no "save then reopen." Install it once, sign in with your Neurocad account, and your desktop becomes the final step in the pipeline.

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