Re: gEDA-user: dxf support

[Steve Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark,

Thanks that worked.

I outlined an area that I didn't want metal to contact my board, using
layer 6. I printed the output to postscript and converted the layer 6
file to a dxf format.

pstoedit -v -f dxf in.ps out.dxf

Autocad 2000 opened the file perfectly.

Thanks much!

Steve Meier


On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 13:06 -0600, Mark Rages wrote:
> On 11/1/05, Steve Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > An issue that I am running up against is the need for a pcb to
> > physically interface to a mechanical object.
> >
> > The mechanical object is typically designed in Autocad (though it could
> > be any mechanical cad package). I would like to have the ability to
> > import/export dxf (or dwg?) files from/to pcb files. Silk screen
> > outlines is what I am thinking for now. In the future, it could be a
> > seperate pcb layer.
> >
> > Has anyone else attempted this?
> >
> > A little research has turned up two gpl libraries which support the dxf
> > file format. Both are written for C++ (http://www.coin3d.org/lib/dime/
> > and dxflib which is used(part of?) qcad.
> >
> > This is a this weeks issue for me so if you have any insite please
> > respond quickly.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Steve Meier
> >
> 
> Here's what I did:
> 
> In qcad, print to a postscript file (at 1:1)
> 
> Use my hacked pstoedit to make it an object on the silk layer.
> http://vivara.net/software/pstoedit_additions/
> 
> I used this approach to import logo artwork from Inkscape, and to
> import footprints directly from datasheets.
> 
> You can also use pstoedit to go from PCB's postscript output to DXF.
> 
> Regards,
> Mark
> markrages@gmail
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