pcb-rnd knowledge pool

Abstract: n/a

  pcb-rnd supports a wide range of file formats. The user documentation contains a drawing and a detailed table listing them all.

Supporting all those file formats makes you able to load old design files produced with 90's or 2000's prorietary EDA systems or enables you to team up with other engineers who prefer to use KiCad or Eagle for their part.

The knowledge pool contains quite a few articles about using various file - the full list can be acquired with a search on tag format

Below is a list of howtos, organized by topic:

• Board format compatibility:
  • load altium boards (using external tool)
  • load eagle boards ( xml , binary directly; or use an external converter )
  • import fidocadj boards
• Import schematics or netlist:
  • work from KiCad's eeschem schematics
  • work from an LTSpice schematics
  • work from Mentor Graphics Design Capture schematics
  • work from TinyCAD schematics
• Misc:
  • import bitmaps (e.g. for logo)
  • generate QR codes
  • import mechanical drawings from HPGL (most mech CADs can plot to HPGL)
  • export artwork from inkscape in a pcb-rnd loadable form
  • template based x/y (pick&place and bom) exporter