davidperrenoud
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10 years ago From andre.knoerig@gmail.com on March 29, 2010 03:26:37
Now that we have a footprint importer for geda (.fp files), we might have some more opportunities:
- Eagle->Fritzing Would require an Eagle ULP, based on the eagle2kicad one. Together with the KiCad file specs referred below, this might be interesting.
- Eagle->geda->Fritzing There doesn't seem to be an Eagle-to-geda path. Could only find this beginning of a ULP script: http://blog.mithis.net/archives/pcb/23-eagle2geda-symbol-converter * Eagle->KiCad->geda->Fritzing A KiCad-to-geda path doesn't seem to exist either.
- Eagle->KiCad->Fritzing This might be a good way to go. KiCad's community has grown a lot recently, they have a big library of own parts, Eagle converted parts, and several tools to create new parts. However, their file format is a bit odd, but there is good documentation about it:
"pcbnew" is the KiCad component that deals with board layout and also the footprint editing. It has good GUI documentation in /doc/help/en/pcbnew.pdf. The section about ModEdit is especially helpful. ".mod" files contain footprints, and ".lib" files contain schematic symbols. Detailed file specs can be found in /doc/help/en/file_formats.pdf.
From andre.knoerig@gmail.com on November 20, 2009 12:11:28
Eagle has the biggest library of parts ever, there's a very nice set of all the Sparkfun parts as well as tons of SMD parts.
The KiCad people have already made a script to convert pcb packages as well as schematic symbols into their format, and there's a even a script that turns them into SVGs!
Eagle user scripts, including eagle2svg-1.1.ulp and eagle2kicad-0.9b.ulp can be found here: http://www.cadsoft.de/cgi-bin/download.pl? page=/home/cadsoft/html_public/download.htm.en&dir=eagle/userfiles/ulp
Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/fritzing/issues/detail?id=921