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Date: | Mon, 24 Aug 2015 15:34:25 -0400 |
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Subject: | Re: [geda-user] PADS docs enabling conversion to PCB |
From: | "Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> |
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Nice. Would you mind if I add them to the list I have here? http://edacore.org/wiki/Format_Reference On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Spacefalcon the Outlaw <falcon AT ivan DOT harhan DOT org> wrote: > Hello free EDA users, > > After digging a junk laptop out of a closet and installing first > Windows, then PADS on it, I was able to gain access to the docs for > PADS' PCB and library ASCII file formats: > > ftp://ftp.freecalypso.org/pub/CAD/PADS/pdfdocs/Plib_ASCII.pdf > ftp://ftp.freecalypso.org/pub/CAD/PADS/pdfdocs/Ppcb_ASCII.pdf > > I found these docs to be quite good, and in theory it is possible to > write a lossless automated converter for moving footprints or even > complete board layouts from PADS into GNU PCB. Notice I said "in > theory" - in practice the problem one will run into is that our > current PCB is so much less capable than PADS: no blind/buried vias, > no arbitrary drawing layers, no pad stacks etc. Thus if a PADS board > design uses all of those (like cellphone boards do), then there is no > way to convert these features which our PCB does not support yet. But > those features which GNU PCB does support can be converted from PADS > losslessly using these PADS file format docs. > > Happy hacking, > SF -- Home http://evanfoss.googlepages.com/ Work http://forge.abcd.harvard.edu/gf/project/epl_engineering/wiki/
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