| ID: | 4178 |
| From: | Erich Heinzle <a1...@gmail.com> |
| Date: | Fri, 12 Jun 2020 21:34:22 +0930 |
| Subject: | Re: [pcb-rnd] pcb import broken |
| in-reply-to: | 4172 from Majenko Technologies <ma...@majenko.co.uk> |
You can probably use any old gEDA PCB file as a footprint library, if that might save you some effort. Erich On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 7:56 PM Majenko Technologies <matt@majenko.co.uk> wrote: > > Looks like it's fixed from my end, but I guess you need Gabriel to confirm it 100% with his original source files... > > This reminds me, I really need to spend some time converting my old PCB designs to LHT, and trawling through my footprint archive converting them all to LHT as well... Ugh... > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 6:41 AM <gedau@igor2.repo.hu> wrote: >> >> Hello Gabriel, >> >> On Thu, 11 Jun 2020, Gabriel Paubert wrote: >> >> > Hi Igor2, >> > >> >today I tried to have a look at old boards designed with PCB and pcb-rnd >> >exits very quickly when importing them. >> > >> >I even fired pcb (something I had not done in a very long time), >> >created and save an empty board. pcb-rnd is unable to load it. >> >> Thanks, fixed in r31858, please test! >> >> > >> >I don't know for how long this has been the case, but the ability to >> >import old designs and convert them to pcb-rnd is something I really >> >need from time to time. >> >> It was in for 9 days! >> >> On the birght side: as part of the NGI0 project I defined a milestone >> assigned to make automated tests for alien file formats. Catching this bug >> by hand in 9 days is extremely good - we really have an excellent user >> base with the testing. Plus it is good that we have scheduled releases and >> stop feature development (which intrdocued this bug too) at 2/3 of the dev >> cycle so we have time to find bugs like this before the release. But I >> think some automatism on this could improve that some more. >> >> Best regards, >> >> Igor2 >> >> > > > -- > Matt Jenkins > Majenko Technologies > https://majenko.co.uk
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