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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Converting schematic from OrCAD to gschem
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On Tue, 2014-12-30 at 17:27 +0000, Katya M. wrote:

[snip]

> If it takes no more than 5 minutes, might it perhaps be possible for
> you to open that DSN file I'm dealing with (link below) in your OrCAD
> setup and export the BOM information? When I run strings on the binary
> file, I see what looks like a lot of useful information: names of PCB
> footprints, orderable part numbers etc - information that does not
> appear in any of the PDF schematics I found for this >10 y old
> reference board. (I'm guessing this info is OrCAD's equivalent of
> gschem's invisible attributes - they are there, but not shown on PDF
> prints.)
> 
> Here is the file again:
> 
> ftp://ftp.ifctf.org/pub/GSM/Calypso/Leonardo_rev05.dsn
> 
> TIA,
> Katya


Perhaps try the PADS2000 netlist export. IIRC, the netlist format is
ASCII, and easily parsed / translated to PCB if required.

(I've built gEDA/PCB layouts from Orcad capture schematics that way
before.. it was simple enough to hand-process the netlist with sed
etc.., rather than write a netlist translator).


Peter

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