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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ed,

I'm not 100% sure what you are asking.  Are you only talking about
export for board layout or export to a kicad schematic?  If you are
talking about a board layout, then the netlist should be adequate.
There is no file format document for the netlist file format but you
should be able to take a sample kicad netlist file and understand the
file format.  It is fairly straight forward.  Human readability is part
of the new s-expression file formats.  You will have to understand how
footprints are loaded from the libraries so that could be tricky.  If
you are talking about export to a kicad schematic and symbol library,
that will be more involved.  The schematic and symbol library file
formats are documented[1].  However, they soon will be replaced with the
new s-expression format in the next version of kicad.  If you really
wanted to make life easier for your users, you could create a kicad
schematic plugin that parses your file formats direction to kicad
objects.  This would require you to have a good understanding of the
kicad code base and be an experienced c++ developer.  I hope this helps.
 Good luck.

Cheers,

Wayne


On 1/17/2018 1:19 PM, Ed Henderson wrote:
> Greetings all.
> 
> I am a developer of an online schematic/drawing tool. This tool does
> simple schematics, but in no way would compete with a tool like KiCad.
> We would however like to offer users a path for their projects if they
> need to go further with them. KiCad is a wonderful tool, and we would
> like to see what we could do
> to allow users to move their work into a KiCad project.
> 
> I'm writing to ask for suggestions on how we might do this in the
> 'simplest' manner. If we were able to generate just a netlist (not
> graphical symbols or wiring), would there be a useful way to use that
> information in a KiCad project?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any advice/suggestions you might have to offer.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ed
> 
> 
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