gEDA-dev: [pcb] first alpha version of pcb-dxf-HID

[Bert Timmerman]

Hi Steve,

If there is some sort of importer HID template available ;-)

Methinks I know enough of the DXF fileformat to write such an importer.

OTOH, I do not know enough of pcb how to do the import of entities
"directly" (on the fly).

Maybe an intermediate solution would be to write a stand alone (CLI?)
translator and after translation add the entities with "File/Load layout
data to paste-buffer".

One question that comes to mind is: what do we want to import ?

Would that be traces, outlines, keepouts, artwork, ... or all sorts of
other (2D) stuff.

First, I want to make some more advance with the DXF exporter, it still
has a series of bugs to be squashed before it behaves stable.

Kind regards,

Bert Timmerman. 


On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 07:11 -0800, Steve Meier wrote:
> Is a dxf importer available?
> 
> Steve Meier
> 
> Bert Timmerman wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Last twelve months I have been busy (on and off in my spare free time)
> > coding a dxf exporter for pcb.
> >
> > Status: it compiles and generates dxf files readable with QCad.
> >
> > There are probably a lot of bugs to be squashed ;-(
> >
> > So be patient with me.
> >
> > If you're still interested after all this, pay a visit to my home page:
> > http://www.xs4all.nl/~ljh4timm/
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Bert Timmerman.
> >
> > P.S.: all disclaimers you can think of apply ;-)
> >
> >
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