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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 21:21:34 +0200
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Subject: Re: [kicad-users] Re: [geda-user] Any news about FOSS EDA coordination?
 Import/export, common file format
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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.