so far i have a program that can sucessfully read the protel schematic
libraries , browse them and display them on the screen. i'm still
tinkering with polygons as orcad doesn't know those.
still to be done arcs and rounded rectangles.
basically all pins , labels , lines and rectangles show up with correct
data.for single part components
multipart components are a problem as this requires substantiallly more
programming.( orced stores them in a different way and i need to do pin
substitution ( orcad multiparts are all identical like in 4 gates in a
package , every gate symbol holds the power and ground pin . protel
doesn't every part van be completely different ) , or break the
component into 4 subcomponents.
so i will takle those later.
i found some information on the orcad library format but not a lot.
who has the old orcad 386 book ( DOS version ) there used to be a
chapter in there that described how to make schematic symbols.( some of
us mght remeber the ascii drawings with the stars and stripes :-) )
well there is a vector format.
i got some information but it is incomplete.
come on guys who got the specs ? i want to get this thing running by the
weekend.
i will release sourcecode and executable here in the newsgroup ( visual
basic 5.0 code )
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