Steven, Are the files in a text based format?
Steve Meier On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 11:53 -0700, Steven Ball wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user