| ID: | 5991 |
| From: | Derek <de...@q40.de> |
| Date: | Sun, 12 Mar 2023 08:43:46 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [pcb-rnd] P-CAD PCB Files |
| in-reply-to: | 5989 from Erich Heinzle <a1...@gmail.com> |
| replies: | 5992 from Erich Heinzle <a1...@gmail.com> |
Hi, The URL is unreachable. Regards, Derek On 11/03/2023 23:31, Erich Heinzle wrote: > It might be worth putting your gerber layer through translate2coraleda, > at http://githib.com/erichVK5 <http://githib.com/erichVK5>, as the last > time i played with gerbview export in kicad, it struggled with flashed > apertures, exporting only circles, iirc, ignoring non round pad/pin shapes. > > It can export in lihata pcb-rnd format. > > Not sure if kicad has improved in that regard. > > Regards, > > Erich > > On Sat, 11 Mar 2023 21:13 Derek, <derek@q40.de <mailto:derek@q40.de>> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have an old PCB project for a 68060 computer board, I used to build > and sell in 2002. > > In 2002, I only had Schematics in PDF format and the Gerber files in > RS-274-D format, which I have now converted to RS-274-X, with Drill > data > files. > > I needed to make some changes to the 4 layer PCB, so I loaded the > Gerber > files into KiCad 5 Gerber Viewer and saved as a KiCad PCB file. > > I can load in the KiCad 5 PCB file into PCB-RND and everything looks to > be as expected. > > I could make the changes required but I have now been given the > Schematic and PCB source data files, which were created in P-CAD v7 > or v8 > > I found the old P-CAD v8.50 PCB system and have it running in > Virtualbox, so can load up the Schematic editor and have tools to > generate Netlists. The PCB editor is Security Dongle protected, so I > doubt I can find a Dongle. > > The P-CAD Netlist is saved as a binary file, but there are tools to > generate ASCII Netlists, can I import the P-CAD Netlist files into > PCB-RND? > > Regards, > Derek > >
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5991 Re: [pcb-rnd] P-CAD PCB Files from Derek <de...@q40.de>
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