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There appear to be P-CAD exporters for both the PCB ("P-CAD ASCII") and schematic ("P-CAD V16 Schematic Design" ). I set up an output job to generate them, and they're attached.

I tried importing them into Eagle 7.7 (the last one I have a license for), and the PCB kinda works, but the schematic threw up a large number of errors and wasn't able to import any of the components.

Can you try the KiCaD importer? Last time I checked, it could only handle ASCII-format Altium files. The project files appear to be binary, but I can switch that if needed.

mschramm wrote:

from Altium into Specctra/P-CAD ASCII format

err: here not Specctra, but Accel was meant.

Thanks for the update, I'll try today!

cibomahto wrote:

There appear to be P-CAD exporters for both the PCB ("P-CAD ASCII") and schematic ("P-CAD V16 Schematic Design" ). I set up an output job to generate them, and they're attached.

Great, thanks.

I tried importing them into Eagle 7.7 (the last one I have a license for)

(same here; except s/I/we/)

the PCB kinda works, but the schematic threw up a large number of errors and wasn't able to import any of the components.

ACK, also same here. This is the 'expetced' output of that import plugin, as is does not produce consistent sch and brd, the PCB result is always much better than this what ought to become the schema.

Can you try the KiCaD importer? Last time I checked, it could only handle ASCII-format Altium files. The project files appear to be binary, but I can switch that if needed.

As I run Kicad 5.1 , there is only a native Altium PCB import, no schema import (is announced for KiCAD6). There is a variety of stand-alone Altium2KiCAD converters, I use that perl variant which IMO is fast, feature-rich and reliable, however, not perfect as well: https://github.com/thesourcerer8/altium2kicad . So with the inbuilt PCB importer as well as with the stand-alone converter I could sucessfully convert what they were each able to parse and support and got more or less working files (all would need additional manual work though).

Obviously your P-CAD ASCII export formats worked well, also the native PCA import worked even with this binary file format. We can't fine-tune any parameters there, so the results are as good as it gets.

Ok, great. To resolve this, would you like the P-CAD files checked in? I can run them as part of the output job, which would place them in a similar location to the Gerbers and other files.

cibomahto wrote:

would you like the P-CAD files checked in? I can run them as part of the output job, which would place them in a similar location to the Gerbers and other files.

Yes, please do it this way.

Added here: https://github.com/openvizsla/ov_ftdi/pull/46/commits/a979fb7da370f548ac48a5ad89c072b077786570

edit: and also here: https://github.com/openvizsla/ov_ftdi/pull/46/commits/439ca40c07d7ddbbc713ef886a0571d2de7a5701

works for me!