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

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 15:01 -0700, Steven Ball wrote:
> 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?

Possibly. IIRC, the OrCAD importer is for old format OrCAD files, not
the newer binary mess files.

Peter C.




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