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Just in time for the new year I committed the new GEDA PCB plug in for
Pcbnew. It currently only loads footprint libraries (which like the new
Pcbnew file format is a path of footprint files). I added this new
functionality to the module editor import feature. It is not the most
efficient design in the world since I cheated by loading the entire
library and loading the user selected footprint from the library. It
was a cheap and dirty way to test the library loading code. Once the
footprint library table code is implemented, the import code will likely
go away and importing from external libraries to Pcbnew libraries will
become a clipboard copy and paste operation. If any of you have any
GEDA PCB footprint files laying around and need to convert them to
Pcbnew, please give it a try and let me know if you find any issues.
One problem that will occur is if the footprint file has any elliptical
arcs. Pcbnew does not support ellipses so they are converted to arcs
with a constant radius. Most of the bits are in place now to implement
a GEDA PCB board file parser if someone had the ambition and the free
time. It's not something I need so I'll leave this to someone does.
