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Frank Miles (fpm AT u DOT washington DOT edu) wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jun 2015, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) wrote: > >> Perhaps starting with the PCB side is a miss step. A lot of the gEDA >> folks have long wanted to overhaul their PCB stuff anyway for >> architectural reasons. At >> best moving footprints between KiCAD and gEDA's companion PCB would >> make more sense. >> >> Alternatively working on schematic interchange could work. The gEDA >> schematic capture and etc are very well thought out and mature. > > [snip] > > For those starting from gschem - there is an easy way to try kicad. See > http://www.gedasymbols.org/user/frank_miles/ > for a gnetlist script that will generate kicad-compatible netlists. > > And when you need custom footprints - the python footprint generator > from Darrel Harmon will generate either 'pcb' (gEDA) or 'pcbnew' (KiCad) > compatible output: > http://dlharmon.com/geda/footgen.html > > So far I don't know of any tools that make the kicad-schematic -> 'pcb' > netlist. > > HTH... > Hi list members, I played with fped for a while, fped is a parametric footprint generator (yet another one) for kicad. I tried to adapt it for pcb footprints (YMMV, and maybe some bitrot due to nm units). This way we could hae a common definition for footprints ;-) My hackings on fped live here: https://github.com/bert/fped Kind regards, Bert Timmerman.
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