Re: gEDA-user: Free router support?

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

w b wrote:
> Hi,
> Does PCB plan to support the free online router? The router is here:
> http://freerouting.net/
> 
> Bing

Looks like that router uses specctra .dsn format files for input and output.

I've looked a little at the specctra .dsn format in the past.  It is not 
all that complicated and it does suggest some features missing from pcb 
if you wanted to fully take advantage of the router.  My guess is that a 
basic specctra export HID would not be too difficult to code up quickly, 
but you'd only use the subset that fits in with pcb's current capabilities.

But.... I'm not aware of a published specification of the format which 
would be needed to teach PCB to export a layout to the router or import 
the results.  If anyone knows of such a thing (legal copies only please) 
that would be a useful bit of information to have available.

Kicad has specctra .dsn in/out capability but a cursory glance didn't 
turn up a reference to an available document.  I didn't look that 
closely though.

-Dan



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