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Subject: Re: [geda-user] PCB, how to prepopulate with components from netlist?
From: Jason White <whitewaterssoftwareinfo AT gmail DOT com>
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Thanks, that did the trick.

If I invest the time to finish my conversion script I will share it here.

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 8:12 PM, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
>> I know how to translate the file into the PCB netlist format, but I do
>> not know how one would get pcb to populate a design file with parts
>> given just the refdes and the footprint name/string.
>
> I don't know if anyone has done this (likely though) but what you need
> is something that converts the orcad footprint list to a PCB action
> script that loads the footprints.  Note that gschem uses an action
> script for this purpose too.  The script consist of calls to the
> elementlist() action (documented in Appendix G) to define a set of
> elements that "should be on the layout" - causing pcb to load them all
> the first time since the layout is empty.
>
> Note that you can use the "make" version of Import() to call your
> orcad to action-script converter, which let's pcb's File->Import pull
> from orcad :-)



-- 
Jason White