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From: "karl AT aspodata DOT se [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] is geda dead yet? --- import geda's schematics or PCB's board layouts into KiCad
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John Griessen:
> On 10/11/23 19:29, Dave McGuire (mcguire AT neurotica DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> > Sometimes a client will contact me years later and request a variation of an existing design.  There's no practical way (none that 
> > I've found anyway) to import geda's schematics or PCB's board layouts into KiCad
> 
> 
> pcb-rnd can be used as a translator even if you don't use it as a tool for design.

 I have a program to convert symbols to kicad format:
https://aspodata.se/git/openhw/bin/sym2kicad.pl

 Worked fine as of 2018, bug reports are welcome.

Regards,
/Karl Hammar