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thesourcerer8 / altium2kicad

Altium to KiCad converter for PCB and schematics
https://www2.futureware.at/KiCad/
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Issue converting EasyEDA's files using "export as Altium Designer" #115

Open morakniv opened 3 years ago

morakniv commented 3 years ago

I get error code: "File format not understood. Please upload ZIP files which contain .PcbDoc or .SchDoc files. "

EasyEDA -> Export as Altium -> .ZIP -> A2K

This is the file extension(s) I get from EasyEDA: Arduino VU meter skit_2021-04-10.pcbdoc - 1254 kB Arduino VU meter skit_2021-04-10.schdoc - 310 kB

I tried converting both PCB/SCH files together and one at a time, always inside a ZIP folder.
Does EasyEDA differ from files generated by Altium Designer? Or have I missed something in the readme?

arch3angel commented 2 years ago

I have this same issue. Did you ever figure out the issue

bestel74 commented 2 years ago

Same here, maybe someone has a solution?

thesourcerer8 commented 2 years ago

Hmm, you could try to rename the files to .PcbDoc if you are running on a case-sensitive filesystem. If that doesn't help, can you provide me some test-files please?

bestel74 commented 2 years ago

I used the online tool (and tried to rename) but same issue. I can't share my files, but here is the log output if this can help:

Archive: db/7961.zip inflating: db/7961/Acquisition_v1.PcbDoc
inflating: db/7961/Acquisition_v1.SchDoc
Loading Acquisition_v1.SchDoc Loading Acquisition_v1.PcbDoc Skipping ASCII .PcbDoc Done. Handling Acquisition_v1.SchDoc No unpacked .PcbDoc documents found. Trying to unpack it: Loading Acquisition_v1.SchDoc Loading Acquisition_v1.PcbDoc Skipping ASCII .PcbDoc Done. There were no unpacked PcbDoc files found.

thesourcerer8 commented 2 years ago

Ahh, those files are in the Protel ASCII format, not in the Altium Binary format. You could convert them to the binary format if you had an Altium license, and then use my converter. I had been working on improving the converter to be able to handle the ASCII format in the past, but it does not seem to work at the moment, I will look into that again.

bestel74 commented 2 years ago

Ok, thanks for the reply :)

arch3angel commented 2 years ago

Ahh, those files are in the Protel ASCII format, not in the Altium Binary format. You could convert them to the binary format if you had an Altium license, and then use my converter. I had been working on improving the converter to be able to handle the ASCII format in the past, but it does not seem to work at the moment, I will look into that again.

Thank you for looking at a possible solution! This is very frustrating, I like the ease of using EasyEDA with the parts and JLCPCB integration, but I don't want my work locked to a software platform. I would rather store them as a back up in a general format so anyone can use them. Anything you can do would be a huge help!