Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: > At 05:09 PM 9/24/2002 -0500, Jon Elson wrote: > >I don't think there is any automated way to do this, but it should not be a > >very difficult process, and should not take more than an hour even for a > >fairly complex board. > > That's pretty optimistic, I'd say wildly optimistic, having done quite a > few such translations. First, it may be necessary -- it is usually > necessary -- to create all the library parts. Using existing parts is not > advisable because these *can* be slightly different and the goal of a > gerber import is to reproduce the board to the resolution of the gerber > files, so that one could re-fab it without there being any differences, or > at least as few differences as possible.
OK, if you need to build footprints, then it is going to take more time. I was not thinking of making Protel produce an identical Gerber output. I was mostly thinking of some way to automate extracting the netlist from gerber files. > The footprint pads will all need to be assigned designators. Building a > single component might take an hour, if it is sufficiently complex! (Protel > does not have a good pad numbering tool. Tango DOS had a great one, easy to > use....) Yeah, there were a LOT of things that worked better in the old Tango! The schematic editor was a lot faster, and easier to move things around to clear up a spot to add a new component. Jon * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
