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Re: Re: Qucs to KiCAD converter

 

On Dec 25, 2007 5:18 PM, Magnus Beischer <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> --- In kicad-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez
>
>  Meyer" <perezmeyer@...> wrote:
>  >
>  > Hello everyone! I am writing to both lists because I want to start a
>  > qucs-to-kicad converter. My goal is to fullfill the design pipeline
>  > starting from simulation to PCB design.
>  >
>  > I would like you to write any thought you may have about this, and, if
>  > possible, to tell me which files in each project have to be
>  > read/created, and if any documentation exists (I am trying to do this
>  > myself, but the truth is that I did not use qucs nor kicad too much,
>  > and I guess that you, being the developers, would have a better
>  > undertanding of your code :-) )
>  >
>  > Roucaries Bastien, from the Qucs project, has pointed me XSLT [0] to
>  > do the job. I am thinking in doing the converter to the next qucs
>  > major release, based on Qt4.
>  >
>  > Well, any thought would be appreciated.
>  >
>  > Regards, Lisandro.
>  >
>
>  I have written a converter from the TinyCAD schematics application to
>  KiCAD pcbnew. If what you want to do is to use Qucs for schematic
>  capture and simulation and then KiCAD pcbnew for the layout, looking
>  at my code would be enough to write the converter (if you know Qucs...)
>
>  My TinyCad to KiCAD conveter is written in Qt 4.1.4.
>  http://beischer.com/opencad/
>
>  // Magnus

Great! Thank you very much!

-- 
Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
http://perezmeyer.com.ar/

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