P-CAD 2006 to KiCAD v8.0 schematic converter
Isaac Marino Bavaresco
I wrote a program to convert P-CAD 2006 schematic files to KiCAD v8.0 format.
It is written 100% in C and compiles for Windows with MinGW 13.1.0. It should be easy to port it to Linux, if needed.
It is still not generating completely correct output for some conditions but many schematics get translated perfectly, keeping the original visual representation as faithfuly as possible and 100% correct conectivity.
If someone got interested, it is on GitHub at <https://github.com/Ibavaresco/PCADSch2KiCAD>
Comments and suggestions are welcome.
It parses correctly 100% of my schematic files, but it would be good if someone tries it with other files to find any errors.
Cheers,
Isaac
Seth Hillbrand
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Isaac Marino Bavaresco
Hi Seth!
I am not exactly "having problems", I just did not have time to write the code to solve the issue, yet.
I program also in C++, although I like C much more. Indeed I contributed (uncredited) to KiCAD in 2009/2010 (Perhaps Dick Hollenbeck still remembers me).
This project started as a way to sort P-CAD's schematic files so to help with version control, because every time P-CAD saves a file it shuffles all the elements around, making it impossible to do a diff. By sorting the elements of the file, the real differences can be spotted.
Then I noticed that it would be (relatively) easy to output KiCAD files too.
I did know about this other converter already, but it seemed to
me that it was not working (at least I could not make it work when
I needed, then I desisted using it).
My parsing engine is all table-based, except (in P-CAD's case) for four functions to deal with complicated elements, making it easy to create parsers for other file formats also.
But for now I don't have time to continue developing it. That's
why I published the code, so other may give it a try.
Cheers,
Isaac
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