On Nov 28, 2007, at 9:53 AM, Dan McMahill wrote: > Peter Clifton wrote: >> On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 12:41 -0300, Alex Lopes Pereira wrote: >>> Does someone knows how to convert a schematic made in PCAD to gEDA >>> gschem ? >>> >>> Thanks a lot, >>> Alex >> >> Not off the top of my head, but if PCAD has a "human" readable format >> (e.g. can be opened in a text editor, and makes "some" _sense_), we >> could probably have a stab at writing a simple converter. > > I believe there is an ascii format option. Many years ago (before > moving to pcb) I used Accel EDA (what PCAD used to be called) for the > layout of a patch antenna with microstrip feed network. It was > terribly > suited for something like that where the layout is the circuit. I > ended > up writing an awk program which spit out an ascii file that Accel > could > read. My memory is that the file format was not documented but not > too > hard to figure out.
I have a ton of old schematics in PCAD 8.7, which runs on DOS. If there was a way to import them to gschem, I'd be pretty darn happy. I also have a ton of PCAD PCB files as well, which would be neat to get into PCB, but... I don't know where to start to make something like this happen, but if anyone needs a complex example of a PCAD schematic/PCB, let me know, and I would be more than happy to provide. I have symbols/footprints too that I'd love to convert. I'm pretty good at programming and could help out with the effort once I got up to speed a bit... It would be really neat if there was a way to generalize the whole thing, like, take a Gerber backwards into PCB and gschem. Like, pull it into PCB, mark up what footprints belong to what component, generate a netlist, and something of a start for a schematic. Would make the whole geda suite really compelling for new users if they could import old designs. All new designs I do are with geda tools. I'm more than happy to help support this project in exchange for knowing I am not going to get stuck in a bind with a dongle. -Steve _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user