gEDA-user: exporting netlist for PCAD

["Duncan Drennan" <duncan.drennan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I've been looking at the netlist formats and trying to figure out
which one would work best for creating a netlist that can be imported
into PCAD.

PCAD allows one of three netlist formats to be imported, PCAD-ASCII
(which is ACCEL_ASCII), Master Designer ALT, and Tango. Having a look
through the options offered by gnetlist the immediately obvious choice
is the tango format.

The tango format for components is something like this,

[
RefDes
Pattern (footprint)
Device
Value
]

When one gets to PCAD this can present a little bit of a problem. PCAD
takes the Device value to determine which component to use, so if
device says RESISTOR it looks for the RESISTOR part in its library.
One way to solve it is to change all the device values to be some sort
of footprint reference, e.g. change RESISTOR to R0603, or CAPACITOR to
C0805 etc.

Are there any better ways of doing this, or is it just a limitation of
working with PCAD as a layout tool?

Thanks,
Duncan


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