I've never seen or heard of anything which converts designs between different CAD packages.
However, on a similar note, I'd really like to see an addition to Kicad which allows it to import files from other packages, especially EAGLE PCB and gEDA. I did some designs in these other packages before discovering Kicad and moving to it, and it'd be nice to be able to migrate everything to Kicad. Since gEDA is open-source just like Kicad, this shouldn't be too hard. EAGLE would be more of a challenge of course. Lastly, in case there's any Kicad developers reading this, how much cross-pollination/code-sharing is there between gEDA and Kicad? It'd be nice if everyone could work together on a single open-source suite, or at least make it easy to pick-and-choose components from each by making it easy to import and export between the two. Dan --- In [email protected], "Rich Cini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > All: > > I have a quick question about netlist conversions. I'm not having > much success with the KiCad autorouter so I want to try another board > program, but I have the schematic all done in KiCad. Is there a way to > convert the schematic netlist to Tango or OrCad format so I can import > it into another board program to try its autorouter? > > I'm lazy and don't really want to manually route the board. It's a > hobby project -- an expansion board for my 6502-based SBC. Very simple > -- a bunch of parallel 2x25 headers -- but the autorouter leaves 2/3 > of the routes unrouted. Of course, any advice to improve the success > with the KiCad autorouter would be appreciated.
