On 2/28/07, Arthur Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My company is interested in being able to take existing OrCAD schematics and PCB layouts and converting them into gEDA format(s). If there is someone working on this already, I'm "all ears" and ready to begin assisting them in the development process.
I thought about this a couple of months ago in terms of bringing schematics from work (where we use Orcad 10.5) to home (where I use gschem) and back again. Looking around, I couldn't find any documentation on the Orcad file format, so I tried exporting my design to an EDIF file and started writing a parser for that in python. I never got as far as outputting (or is it outing-put?) the design into the gschem format, primarily because I couldn't see the point. I had no guarantee that once I translated a design to gschem, edited it, and translated it back to an EDIF file, I would be able to import that EDIF back into Orcad. Not being able to see the light at the end of the tunnel, I abandoned the project, settling for the start of a parser that extracted some specific information about a specific design. I don't think it would be too difficult to resurrect the parser, and I can see the light at the end of the tunnel for a tool that would take an Orcad generated EDIF file and produce a gschem schematic (set), but I don't have any experience at all with the Orcad PCB tool. --wpd _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
