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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 20:12:07 -0400
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	(message from Jason White on Mon, 27 Apr 2015 20:02:49 -0400)
Subject: Re: [geda-user] PCB, how to prepopulate with components from netlist?
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> I know how to translate the file into the PCB netlist format, but I do
> not know how one would get pcb to populate a design file with parts
> given just the refdes and the footprint name/string.

I don't know if anyone has done this (likely though) but what you need
is something that converts the orcad footprint list to a PCB action
script that loads the footprints.  Note that gschem uses an action
script for this purpose too.  The script consist of calls to the
elementlist() action (documented in Appendix G) to define a set of
elements that "should be on the layout" - causing pcb to load them all
the first time since the layout is empty.

Note that you can use the "make" version of Import() to call your
orcad to action-script converter, which let's pcb's File->Import pull
from orcad :-)