--- In [email protected], "gayphil78" <gayphi...@...> wrote: > > Oh, my goal isn't to develop mechanicals with kicad, but just importing only > significant lines (general contours, pots, jacks or mounting holes, etc ...) > from an existing Qcad project (I'm using it , too ... ) to make easier > contour drawings and position for pots, buttons, jacks, etc, they come on a > panel ... > > Yeah, the converter you told about could be a great help to export from > Kicad, but the opposite action could be great too ...
Should be easy enough to do; I've already done a "panalize" Perl app that creats a new Kicad .brd file from a matrixed copy of an original layout. I'll dig into the .dxf format (it's been a (long!) while) but from what I recall, a naive 1:1 import would be pretty straightforward. For a more general-purpose implementation one would probably also want scaling, translation, and rotation. Do-able. Would be something along the lines of "dxf2brd [dxf file] [brd file]" with the two files combined to create a new file basename_dxf.brd with the dxf contents inserted into the "drawing" layer. Probably also implemented in Perl, to facilitate sharing and hacking by others.
