Re: gEDA-user: Eagle to gEDA conversion path??

2010-02-24 Thread al davis
On Tuesday 23 February 2010, Dave N6NZ wrote: Really? Is there a use for gEDA-Eagle? Lots of reasons. Whether you like it or not, it is popular. Some people will insist on it. If gEDA is ever to replace Eagle, there needs to be a migration path both ways. If Free/open-source is ever to

Re: gEDA-user: Eagle to gEDA conversion path??

2010-02-23 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:53:46 -0800, Dave N6NZ wrote: Really? Is there a use for gEDA-Eagle? There is at my place. I represent an island of geda in an eagle using environment. Eagle is pretty popular in German academia. If I want to share my work with them, a conversion path to eagle would

gEDA-user: Eagle to gEDA conversion path??

2010-02-22 Thread Dave N6NZ
Hi, Is there any automated Eagle to gEDA conversion path? (He says hopefully, but knowing it's highly unlikely.) -dave ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Eagle to gEDA conversion path??

2010-02-22 Thread al davis
On Monday 22 February 2010, Dave N6NZ wrote: Is there any automated Eagle to gEDA conversion path? (He says hopefully, but knowing it's highly unlikely.) No .. but since you mention it, it is time to ask again for help in making something that will do this. I proposed a translator

Re: gEDA-user: Eagle to gEDA conversion path??

2010-02-22 Thread timecop
Diptrace has a pair of ulp scripts to convert eagle project to ascii schematic and pcb. after some creative editing to make output format match geda, it should be fairly feature compelte On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:36 PM, al davis ad...@freeelectron.net wrote: On Monday 22 February 2010, Dave N6NZ

Re: gEDA-user: Eagle to gEDA conversion path??

2010-02-22 Thread Dave N6NZ
On Feb 22, 2010, at 9:08 PM, timecop wrote: Diptrace has a pair of ulp scripts to convert eagle project to ascii schematic and pcb. OK, although I don't know what either Diptrace or ulp are. Sounds like a good place to start, though. I'm wondering how the library issue would be handled.

Re: gEDA-user: Eagle to gEDA conversion path??

2010-02-22 Thread timecop
ulp is eagle script file. i assumed if you wanted to convert something, you'd have eagle running. im pretty sure ulp can access to library data as well, so something to output ascii can be easily written. diptrace is payware pcbcad, but freely downloadable version also includes these 2 conversion

Re: gEDA-user: Eagle to gEDA conversion path??

2010-02-22 Thread Dave N6NZ
On Feb 22, 2010, at 10:29 PM, timecop wrote: ulp is eagle script file. Ahhh i assumed if you wanted to convert something, you'd have eagle running. Just barely, and just recently. And not for much total time yet. im pretty sure ulp can access to library data as well, so something to