You can export OrCAD to EDIF, which is not only text but well documented. Bob Kondner
-----Original Message----- From: kicad-users@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob_xyz Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 10:58 AM To: kicad-users@yahoogroups.com Subject: [kicad-users] Re: Orcad .OLB to KICAD --- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 14 Sep 2007 at 14:12, stephen_alexander_1 wrote: > > > David, > > > > Apologies if this is a resend, the original reply seems to have > > disappeared. > > > > Did you ever get a solution to this problem? > > > > I have an OrCAD olb file which I downloaded from ST >Microelectronics, > > which I would like to convert for use with KiCAD. If you managed >to > > get a solution for this, I would apreciate the info. > > > > Thanks, > > > No, I more or less gave up. > Does OrCAD have the capability to export to text files? Or might there be a utility program around that could do the binary-to-ASCII extraction? I've never been able to make any sense of the .olb file format. If they can be converted to plain text, though, automated translation to another EDA program's format should be possible. Alternately, is there any documentation available that describes the details of the .olb file format? Regards, Bob Please read the Kicad FAQ in the group files section before posting your question. Please post your bug reports here. They will be picked up by the creator of Kicad. Please visit http://www.kicadlib.org for details of how to contribute your symbols/modules to the kicad library. For building Kicad from source and other development questions visit the kicad-devel group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel Yahoo! Groups Links
