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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

There is some support, we can use the eagle footprints from v6. But
the problem I see is simply that it is not easily possible in eeschema
yet.

2016-04-08 10:07 GMT+02:00 Benjamin Nauck <benjamin@xxxxxxxx>:
> Eagle doesn't store schematic symbols and footprints into separate files
> like Kicad does.
> Instead Eagle stores devices/components in their library files where a
> device has a symbol and one or many references to footprints with pin
> assignments. [1]
> Eagle also supports pad shapes that Kicad doesn't.
> This makes it a bit difficult to read lbr files natively but adding some
> support for importing symbols and footprints should be possible.
>
> [1] "Create new library part in Eagle"
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPAPggihC8I
>
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 7:34 AM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I guess that lbr files are for the schematic symbols. If that is the
>> case, I think the reason is nothing with licensing, but rather that
>> there is no "plugin" implemented for eeschema as there is in pcbnew,
>> where one would implement this conversion.
>>
>> 2016-04-08 3:28 GMT+02:00 Daniel Wilches <dwilches@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I noticed that to use Eagle's lbr files in Kicad we need to export them
>> > from
>> > eagle using an ulp (https://github.com/lachlanA/eagle-to-kicad).
>> >
>> > I think it would be beneficial to have Kicad read directly the lbr
>> > files, as
>> > that saves time to the user and doesn't require the user to have Eagle.
>> > But
>> > I wonder if it is not done due to some licensing issues.
>> >
>> > I'm posting this to the developers list as I'm not aware if someone is
>> > working on something like that, and if nobody knows of it and is a
>> > desired
>> > feature then I could help developing it.
>> >
>> > Regards.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Daniel Wilches
>> >
>> >
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