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Sounds really good!

Java add another dependency though as I remember Java also have some good functions for string handling. I guess it should not be to hard to add a menu item in gschem and/or pcb to run the conversion utility and put in some local package/symbol folder but it is really good anyway.


On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 02:18:51 +1030
"Erich Heinzle (a1039181 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

> I have refactored, cleaned up and extended the translate2geda code
> base, to create translate2coralEDA
> 
> https://github.com/erichVK5/translate2coralEDA
> 
> this uillity now includes the Kicad Module and Symbol converters, as well as
> 
> BXL
> BSDL
> IBIS
> Eagle
> QUCS
> LT-Spice
> Symdef
> Hershey font
> and gerber converters
> 
> translate2coralEDA exports to pcb-rnd lihata (.lht) subcircuit format
> by default, as this supports padstacks, as well as obround, round,
> square, roundrect and octagonal pads, as well as arbitrary padstack
> rotation, polygonal copper and line/arc copper features in footprints
> (aka subcircuits), and multiple arbitrary text features with arbitrary
> rotation, giving essentially lossless conversion from other formats.
> 
> The refactor of the schematic symbol exporting parts of the code still
> needs a bit more work.
> 
> In the near future, users will be able to specify either gEDA PCB (.fp
> with unavoidable conversion losses) or pcb-rnd (.lht) output for
> footprints, and either gschem or xschem format outputs for symbols.
> 
> The addition of some existing SVG path conversion code is also
> planned, along with a font converter for converting SVG fonts into
> polygon based font files for pcb-rnd.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Erich
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 2:43 PM Nicklas Karlsson
> (nicklas DOT karlsson17 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]
> <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> >
> > I can not remember if someone mentioned something about *.bxl files for pcb-rnd but it seems to be common. There is an utility translate2geda https://github.com/erichVK5/translate2geda which I tried once and it seems to work really great on this first try.
> >
> > Me did not look for a while and maybe everyone else already noticed it?
> >
> >
> > Nicklas Karlsson