rsmith-ft
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5 years ago Its all true, these steps no longer work. Any help would be appreciated.
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rsmith-ft
commented
5 years ago Its all true, these steps no longer work. Any help would be appreciated.
KeithSloan
commented
5 years ago Have not tested in a long time, Busy till after the 5th Jan. Will put testing on my list of things to do.
Might be worth asking in the KiCAD forum as to what might have changed. Doubt it anything on the Fritzing side.
rsmith-ft
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5 years ago Many thanks. I will put the question to the KiCad forum.
Cheers,
On 12/11/2018 3:44 PM, Keith Sloan wrote:
Have not tested in a long time, Busy till after the 5th Jan. Will put testing on my list of things to do.
Might be worth asking in the KiCAD forum as to what might have changed. Doubt it anything on the Fritzing side.
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rsmith-ft
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5 years ago Hi Keith,
I am running Version 5.0.2-1. Platform Windows 8: (built 9200) 64-bit edition. (windows 8 is weird). My system is Windows 10.
I will admit I am a newby with KiCAD. For me, things start to go awry in the 2nd step in the "In KiCAD" portion of the instructions:
Then select run CvPCB - third icon from right - op amp & ic
First there is no CvPCB icon. The second icon from the right brings up a Pcbnew window and creates a subdirectory.
In the third step: Then open Netlist - File | Open, there is no "Netlist" icon or menu. There is a Generate Netlist File, in the "Tools" pull down window, but then the instructions stop making sense all together.
Cheers, Roger
On 12/12/2018 4:03 PM, Keith Sloan wrote:
December 12
Just to be clear the instructions that used to work are
Workflow In Fritzing
Create breadboard circuit in Fritzing
Export circuit to XML Netlist - File | Export Netlist
Run xml2net program
In KiCAD
Invoke schematic EEschema
Then select run CvPCB - third icon from right - op amp & ic
Then open Netlist - File | Open
Allocate foot prints
Save as cmp file - helps to name same prefix as netlist`
Go to PcbNew
Open Netlist and associated cmp file
Make sure select option - top arrow right hand side`
Select Mode - fourth icon from right - ic with cross arrows
Right click mouse button on blank bit of board
Global Spread & place
Complete PCB design
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As of now, it seems that these steps no longer work. The netlist seems to be generated, but there is no (longer) any way to import it in KiCAD / EEschema. I can read it using pcbnew, but then it will be missing all the components/footprints. I would need to assign them using Cvpcb, but I can't open a netlist in there.
Has anyone reading this recently managed to convert a Fritzing project to KiCAD?