Have you had any luck in being able to transfer netlists and schematics from Eagle to Kicad?
--- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, "Dan" <dan...@...> wrote: > > 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 kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, "Rich Cini" <rcini@> 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. >
