X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Original-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=rznCBpQQg6oUFFF+GCiKAl6JbZPjkXRe7UuQiNN3faU=; b=uO81I0Ypw/TuIa3zD1L0i1B33uanaTLcuVN2KQnyLp45I2YVA3zn5AsvoBmPEsfr73 t5KFYjKXlzCcmHRCG0ymL08HlfqCSWWsHTHud+E6aFyTfIOyoQeHpVS17kMwt0pbcdMf VYJMVj9KnvJUhZ42P/Zluw+9Zg1my5ZFoCCqABYt4xplIOaQA7TrWImw/epMMuoQEs2e ty1LptIhgbRZaBeduLiZKFdfdHZFgcZHro/1hnPmpGpEGnrUDMx/z75IkbkAp3K7SaE4 xinZ0y5DUtxlE1Mo7rZhwzad01aCaE6ls/rOV8FWf4aabIeTFv2C0ViP3KrUT89ZDXDW 8e9w== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.54.132 with SMTP id j4mr21894951lbp.84.1440444865502; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 12:34:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1508241735.AA23409@ivan.Harhan.ORG> References: <1508241735 DOT AA23409 AT ivan DOT Harhan DOT ORG> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 15:34:25 -0400 Message-ID: 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]" To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk 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 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/