Re: gEDA-user: PCAD to GEDA (GSCHEM)

2007-12-07 Thread Steve Meier
Looks like it has the relevent info. Steve Meier On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 11:15 -0700, Steven Ball wrote: > I was doing some digging today, and look what I found: > > http://www.cedcc.psu.edu/cadtools/pcaddoc/pdif.pdf > > Documentation on the format of the PDIF output from PCAD. Hope it is > he

Re: gEDA-user: PCAD to GEDA (GSCHEM)

2007-12-07 Thread Steven Ball
I was doing some digging today, and look what I found: http://www.cedcc.psu.edu/cadtools/pcaddoc/pdif.pdf Documentation on the format of the PDIF output from PCAD. Hope it is helpful. See also: http://www.cedcc.psu.edu/cadtools/interfaces.html -Steve On Nov 28, 2007, at 6:43 PM, Steve Me

Re: gEDA-user: PCAD to GEDA (GSCHEM)

2007-11-28 Thread Steve Meier
Peter, My work is heavily derived from geda. If it makes sense for the main geda project to merge my efforts back in then I am very happy to to have contributed. Steve Meier Peter Clifton wrote: > On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 17:43 -0800, Steve Meier wrote: > >> Just to show off what I have been wor

Re: gEDA-user: PCAD to GEDA (GSCHEM)

2007-11-28 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 17:43 -0800, Steve Meier wrote: > Just to show off what I have been working. The two attached files > include a script for reading in a schematic file. The second is my > attempt to document the api that either exists or that I have been > implementing. Comments, suggestions

Re: gEDA-user: PCAD to GEDA (GSCHEM)

2007-11-28 Thread Steve Meier
Just to show off what I have been working. The two attached files include a script for reading in a schematic file. The second is my attempt to document the api that either exists or that I have been implementing. Comments, suggestions are always welcome. If we can figure out the pcad file formats

Re: gEDA-user: PCAD to GEDA (GSCHEM)

2007-11-28 Thread Dan McMahill
Steven Ball wrote: > The PDIF writer seems to be able to convert anything to an ASCII output. > > http://snurkle.net/~hamster/geda/ By any chance does the documentation for PCAD have details on that format? If not, it looks like it could largely be figured out. > I'll dig around and see if I ca

Re: gEDA-user: PCAD to GEDA (GSCHEM)

2007-11-28 Thread John Luciani
On Nov 28, 2007 5:01 PM, Steven Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I included all the symbols it references, > but it also seems that it embedded the symbol defs in the pdif file. > The PDF file is an actual PDF of what it looks like in PCAD. It - > appears- to be pretty straight forward. It does

Re: gEDA-user: PCAD to GEDA (GSCHEM)

2007-11-28 Thread Peter Clifton
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 15:01 -0700, Steven Ball wrote: > The PDIF writer seems to be able to convert anything to an ASCII output. > > http://snurkle.net/~hamster/geda/ > > In that directory, you will find a zip file and the unzipped contents > of that file of a schematic that describes some sor

Re: gEDA-user: PCAD to GEDA (GSCHEM)

2007-11-28 Thread Steven Ball
The PDIF writer seems to be able to convert anything to an ASCII output. http://snurkle.net/~hamster/geda/ In that directory, you will find a zip file and the unzipped contents of that file of a schematic that describes some sort of a car alarm (easiest thing I could find off hand that I don

Re: gEDA-user: PCAD to GEDA (GSCHEM)

2007-11-28 Thread Steve Meier
Sure post an example and see if you can convert a symbol to an ascii format. Steve Meier On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 12:19 -0700, Steven Ball wrote: > On Nov 28, 2007, at 11:48 AM, Steve Meier wrote: > > > Steven, > > > > Are the files in a text based format? > > > > There is a text header (PC-CAPS d

Re: gEDA-user: PCAD to GEDA (GSCHEM)

2007-11-28 Thread Steven Ball
On Nov 28, 2007, at 11:48 AM, Steve Meier wrote: > Steven, > > Are the files in a text based format? > There is a text header (PC-CAPS database file version, copyright), and then the rest of the file is binary gibberish. However, running it through the 'PDIF Writer' produces a .pdf, which i

Re: gEDA-user: PCAD to GEDA (GSCHEM)

2007-11-28 Thread Steve Meier
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

Re: gEDA-user: PCAD to GEDA (GSCHEM)

2007-11-28 Thread Steven Ball
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

Re: gEDA-user: PCAD to GEDA (GSCHEM)

2007-11-28 Thread Dan McMahill
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 tex

Re: gEDA-user: PCAD to GEDA (GSCHEM)

2007-11-28 Thread Peter Clifton
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" _sens

gEDA-user: PCAD to GEDA (GSCHEM)

2007-11-28 Thread Alex Lopes Pereira
Does someone knows how to convert a schematic made in PCAD to gEDA gschem ? Thanks a lot, Alex - Abra sua conta no Yahoo! Mail, o único sem limite de espaço para armazenamento! ___ geda-user mailing list geda-us