Re: gEDA-user: Documentation for convert_sym README file

[Kipton Moravec <kip@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the quick response. I will let you know how it goes. I have
13 years of schematics to convert.

Kip

On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 19:19 -0400, Mike Jarabek wrote:
> Kipton Moravec wrote:
> > "Program name: convert_sym
> > Written by: Mike Jarabek
> > convert_sym takes ViewLogic Viewdraw schematic or symbol and outputs a
> > gschem compatible file. This utility should be considered a work in
> > progress. Be warned, this program has quite a few limitations. See the
> > README file in the utils/ directory for more info. This program is
> > written in C. There is also an awk version which is old and no longer
> > supported, however it is included in the distribution as reference."
> >   
> The old Awk script was replaced with a C program some time ago, as you 
> found out:
> > <SNIP>
> > There is only one file with the string convert_sym and that is the
> > executable file.
> >   
> That's the right file.
> 
> You can use this program on the Viewdraw schematics, and all symbol 
> files, running it should give a brief command line synopsis.  When you 
> set up your geda project, I would recommend putting the schematics in 
> one directory, and the symbols in another. Follow one of the tutorials 
> to configure the geda config files for your project to look in the 
> symbol directory for your converted symbols, and look for the schematics 
> in the schematic directory you created.  It's probably good to use the 
> 'reset-component-library' command to flush the built in list of library 
> searches in case one of your Viewdraw symbol names clash with one of the 
> shipped symbol names.  (Look on the wiki at 
> http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:faq-gschem under Gschem 
> configuration/customization for information on the configuration files.  
> You will only need a few lines in each to accomplish what you need.  If 
> you set up your various conversion projects similarly, you can probably 
> copy the config files from one project to another.)
> 
> There is another utility included with the geda distribution called 
> 'smash_megafile', which will break one of the Viewlogic '.lib' library 
> files apart into the individual symbol files.  You may need to do this 
> on one or more Megafiles if you have used any of the stock components.  
> Do this in a separate directory, as unpacking one of these can create 
> many small symbol files.  You will have to look at the gschem output log 
> to see which files should be copied into your symbol directory.
> 
> The process is somewhat manual, but can get the job done with some patience.
> 
> Note that not all the Viewdraw attributes map into geda equivalents, so 
> you may have to use gattrib on the resulting schematic to pound them 
> into shape if you are planning to go to layout with PCB.
> 
> It's been quite a while since I have played with these utilities, so 
> please let us know how things work out.
> > I do not know how to find the README. Can someone give me the full path
> > to the README for convert_sym?
> >
> >
> >
> >   
> 
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