Re: gEDA-user: PCAD to GEDA (GSCHEM)

[Steven Ball <hamster@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The PDIF writer seems to be able to convert anything to an ASCII output.

http://snurkle.net/~hamster/geda/

In that directory, you will find a zip file and the unzipped contents  
of that file of a schematic that describes some sort of a car alarm  
(easiest thing I could find off hand that I don't have to sanitize too  
heavily to put on the web).  I included all the symbols it references,  
but it also seems that it embedded the symbol defs in the pdif file.   
The PDF file is an actual PDF of what it looks like in PCAD.  It - 
appears- to be pretty straight forward.

I'll dig around and see if I can find a .pcb file to convert and post  
as well.  Let me know what you think and how I can be of help.

I also noted that there are ways to convert from PDIF to an OrCAD  
file, and there is already an OrCAD importer of sorts.  Maybe that can  
be adapted?

-Steve

On Nov 28, 2007, at 12:28 PM, Steve Meier wrote:

> Sure post an example and see if you can convert a symbol to an ascii
> format.
>
> Steve Meier
>
> On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 12:19 -0700, Steven Ball wrote:
>> On Nov 28, 2007, at 11:48 AM, Steve Meier wrote:
>>
>>> Steven,
>>>
>>> Are the files in a text based format?
>>>
>>
>> There is a text header (PC-CAPS database file version, copyright),  
>> and
>> then the rest of the file is binary gibberish.
>>
>> However, running it through the 'PDIF Writer' produces a .pdf, which
>> is actually a 'P-CAD Database Interchange Format' file, which is
>> wholly text.
>>
>> Symbols are still binary, but I might be able to get them to go
>> through the PDIF writer as well.
>>
>> Should I put up an example?  I can create an actual PDF of what it
>> should look like along with the binary and PDIF outputs.
>>
>> -Steve
>>
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