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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Converting footprints from PADS to PCB
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On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 6:11 AM, Erich Heinzle (a1039181 AT gmail DOT com)
> [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>> From what I can see, altium can import ascii PADS data, but not binary.
>>
>> There is a "read only"-ish free PADs viewer available -
>> http://www.pads.com/downloads/pads-pcb-viewer/
>>
>> gerbv supports svg export. dxf can be converted to kicad. kicad can be
>> converted to PCB.
>>
>> I will experiment with the gerbers and see what is possible.
>>
>> The project looks interesting and gerber -> PCB layout is an itch that needs
>> scratching.
>
> I have done
> gerber -> postscript -> pcb

You can try experimental exporter from Gerber to gEDA PCB

https://github.com/alyoshin/gerbv-dxf

>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Erich.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Spacefalcon the Outlaw
>> <falcon AT ivan DOT harhan DOT org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Continuing on my quest to recapture the design of a classic GSM
>>> cellphone in a FOSS EDA format...  A few months ago the founder of
>>> Openmoko released the original design files, including PCB layout, for
>>> their legendary Neo Freerunner:
>>>
>>> ftp://ftp.freecalypso.org/pub/GSM/GTA02/GTA02-MB-A6.zip
>>>
>>> Their PCB layout was done in PADS, and we have both the original PADS
>>> file and the full set of gerbers made from it.  I would like to reuse
>>> a whole bunch of footprints from Openmoko's layout, as that layout
>>> contains known good footprints for all of the core components needed
>>> in a Calypso phone or modem.
>>>
>>> The problem is that PADS' *.pcb files are in a proprietary binary
>>> format. :-(  The good news is that we have the gerbers too, and one
>>> can view them with gerbv, measure the dimensions of every aspect of
>>> every footprint and recreate an equivalent footprint for our PCB - but
>>> of course it would be a very tedious manual process.
>>>
>>> I wonder, would anyone here happen to know anything about PADS' format?
>>> Was it perchance documented in some place accessible to mere mortals?
>>> Or if I found someone with a working installation of PADS who could
>>> open the layout file, does PADS perchance have some way to extract
>>> elements from a complete PCB design and save them as reusable
>>> footprints?  Or perhaps a way to save the whole layout as ASCII instead
>>> of binary - if it were ASCII, I could probably stare at it and figure
>>> out the info I'm after...
>>>
>>> Has anyone ever succeeded in moving footprints from PADS into the FOSS
>>> EDA world, be it our PCB or KiCAD?
>>>
>>> TIA,
>>> SF
>>
>>
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