Re: gEDA-user: Importing board outline from .emn file

[Neil Webster <nwebster@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks DJ. I will look into this. If I go the scripting route would
Python be ok? For the plug-in route are there some pointers to show how
to go about creating a plug-in?


On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 00:21 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
> Nothing at the moment, but if it's a documented text file, you could
> write a script to convert it into pcb's file format - a separate .pcb
> that just has the outline/keepout layers (keepout isn't supported, but
> you can create a layer with that name just to hold the outlines).
> Then use File->Load layout data to import it into the paste buffer.
> 
> This might be a good case for a plug-in that imports that data, too.
> Save a couple of cut-paste steps.
> 
> 



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