Re: gEDA-user: Export to Orcad?

["Ian Chapman" <ian.chapman@xxxxxxxx>]

Orcad layout needs a dot.mnl file and orcad capture generates a number of
formats mnl bien sure plus hdl, spice etc.  There is also an alegro option I
think that is a universal format.  Capture is very popular and I was told
they use alegro to export to other layout tools.  I prefer gschem to orcad9
and I also spent a frustrating week with layout trying to outline a simple
rectangular board.  Regards Ian.


Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Export to Orcad?

On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 22:06 -0400, Randall Nortman wrote:
> I'm pretty sure the answer is still, as it has always been, "no", but
> just to check: Can I get gschem to export to Orcad format, or any
> other schematic format?  I need to send my design to the
> "professionals" for further work, who of course are not gEDA-friendly.
> I think it's probably going to come down to me giving them
> postscript/pdf and them re-entering the design in their own preferred
> package, unless there's a converter I'm not aware of.

You can't export the schematic, no - but there are a lot of different
net-list formats gnetlist can export to.

I guess the first step is to find out what netlist formats orcad can
read. If its none which gnetlist can emit, can we get an example netlist
file to try and write an exporter? Netlist files tend to be ASCII as
layout tool vendors actually want you to be able to import this data.

Best wishes,

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Peter Clifton

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Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
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