Hi Ed, I'm not 100% sure what you are asking. Are you only talking about export for board layout or export to a kicad schematic? If you are talking about a board layout, then the netlist should be adequate. There is no file format document for the netlist file format but you should be able to take a sample kicad netlist file and understand the file format. It is fairly straight forward. Human readability is part of the new s-expression file formats. You will have to understand how footprints are loaded from the libraries so that could be tricky. If you are talking about export to a kicad schematic and symbol library, that will be more involved. The schematic and symbol library file formats are documented[1]. However, they soon will be replaced with the new s-expression format in the next version of kicad. If you really wanted to make life easier for your users, you could create a kicad schematic plugin that parses your file formats direction to kicad objects. This would require you to have a good understanding of the kicad code base and be an experienced c++ developer. I hope this helps. Good luck.
Cheers, Wayne On 1/17/2018 1:19 PM, Ed Henderson wrote: > Greetings all. > > I am a developer of an online schematic/drawing tool. This tool does > simple schematics, but in no way would compete with a tool like KiCad. > We would however like to offer users a path for their projects if they > need to go further with them. KiCad is a wonderful tool, and we would > like to see what we could do > to allow users to move their work into a KiCad project. > > I'm writing to ask for suggestions on how we might do this in the > 'simplest' manner. If we were able to generate just a netlist (not > graphical symbols or wiring), would there be a useful way to use that > information in a KiCad project? > > Thanks in advance for any advice/suggestions you might have to offer. > > Regards, > > Ed > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
