Announcing edif2kicad, testers requested
  https://sourceforge.net/projects/edif2kicad/

For those with schematics they wish to  export from OrCad and 
import into KiCad.

Date: 2007-10-24 10:55
Summary: edif2kicad-20071023

This release is able to parse OrCad EDIF output, write library files
and a schematic file for import into KiCad EEschema. I rate the 
quality at 80% correct, needs more testing, but it beats re-entering
a schematic by hand but user beware!
 
With a few symbol library edits for pin Up/Down EEschema should be 
able to give a pretty good display and produce a netlist. Pin Up/Down
info was not included in my EDIF test files, possibly an bug in
OcCads EDIF out (think I'm using Version 7, if I remember right)

Notes: I put the *.lib, *.sch e2sch output in a separate test
directory. The challenge was to get KiCad to forget about the
installed library path and just look in my test directory.  I gave
up and used a text editor to generate some test.pro files. The
*.sch output from e2sch already lists the libraries it found and
generated.

Warning: don't put multiple libs in the same directory.  I noticed
"interference* between multiple XTIE connection symbols coming from
different OrCad designs.

TODO:
 o maybe automatic reconize sheet size. 
   (workaround: change in EEschema)
 o text scale is still a little funky
 o some PinNums are there, some are not
 o no testing of hierachical sheets
 o mimimal testing of EEschema netlist out

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