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[Jake <jake@xxxxxxxx>]

just to be a bit more specific, here is a link to the kicad .POS file 
importer as it stands now.  You can see that it is designed for the old 
file format.

https://github.com/openpnp/openpnp/blob/develop/gui/src/main/java/org/openpnp/gui/importer/KicadPosImporter.java

here is a .POS file exported recently, which as you can see has a 
different format.

http://spaz.org/~jake/stl/bumps-F.Cu.pos

thank you
-jake

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Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 14:27:04 -0700
From: Jason von Nieda
Subject: Re: openPNP kicad .pos import function

Hey Jake,
Looks like they changed the order of some of the columns in the file and how
some of the them are represented. I'll need to write a new matcher and
modify a bit of the code. I'll try to get to it this week but I can't make
any promises. In the mean time, you should check and see if there is a way
for KiCAD to export the old format. I don't use it, so I am not really
familiar with why they changed the format in the first place.

Jason

On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 10:46 PM, Jake <jake@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
      Hi Jason,

      thank you for working on openPNP!  I saw your email address in
      KicadPosImporter.java and i'm trying to use openPNP to load a
      KiCAD project.

      When i load my .pos file, i get "Match not found" and I believe
      this is because the format of kicad .POS files has changed.

      here is my .pos file, which was made with a recent KiCAD build.
       There was a big refactoring of KiCAD in the last year, so i
      expect this is when the format changed.

      http://spaz.org/~jake/stl/bumps-F.Cu.pos

      I am not familiar with Java, and more importantly, i can't
      understand the pattern matcher well enough to even try to tinker
      with it.  So i was hoping you might have time to update the
      parser to the modern .POS format?

      another option would be to read the kicad .rpt file, which is
      formatted differently but contains a lot more information.
       Here's an example:
      https://github.com/hzeller/rpt2paste/blob/master/bumps.rpt

      i think the .pos file might be outdated overall, but i can see
      how it would be easier to change the existing code to read a
      modern .pos file.

      do you have time to work on this?

      thanks,
      -jake