--- In [email protected], "axtz4" <ax...@...> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "gayphil78" <gayphil78@> 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.
>
I'm not developper and can't say if difficult or not to do . I'm sure even an
external app giving "dxf2brd" file loadable in the drawing layer by kicad would
be great . Not an obligation to implement inside Kicad ... We just have to load
the matrix result in kicad as a common board, then rename it to the good
filename which fit with the EEschema one ...
But for sure, it would be greater to have it natively inside Kicad ...;-)
