* Imports and exports betweeb Upverter OpenJSON, KiCad, gEDA, Fritzing, RS274-X Gerber, NC Drill, Eagle, Eagle XML (in testing), ViewDraw / DxDesigner (in testing), DSN (in testing), PNG Image, Bill of Materials, CSV Netlist, Altium (in development), Telesis Netlist (in development) * Forum thread about it in EEvBLOG Altium2KiCad: Forum thread about it in EEvBLOG Eagle2KiCad QUCS2KiCad rnif2ki: Orcad to KiCAD netlist converter EDIF2KiCad mirror Last commit by Frank Bennett * Forum thread about it in EEvBLOG * Import Formats: Altium, Eagle, SIMetrix SPICE, EDIF * Export Formats: Altium, Eagle, SIMetrix, SPICE, EDIF, PNG, SVG, BMP - schematic-file-converter: Abandoned by Upverter and this is the latest fork with some impromenents. Schematics.io It's a cloud service for converting certain file formats, it seems to not have received any update sicne 2015. Alternatives - FlowCAD They offer a proffesional EDA file format conversion service. * Export: Altium, Protel, P-CAD, AutoCAD DWG/DXF, OrCAD (SDT, OrCAD v7, SDT, Capture), HyperLynx, Protel, Specctra, SDRC-IDF PCB files, STEP, SiSoft, Ansoft Neutral File. Some examples: - Altium Designer is able to: * Import: Altium, P-CAD, Protel, Allegro, AutoCAD DWG/DXF, Autotrax, CircuitMaker, CadStar, DxDesigner, Eagle, Expedition, IDF, PADS, OrCAD, P-CAD, Protel, SiSoft, Specctra, Tango. Post_Facto_interoperability would fight against [ * This could make users of other EDA tools to try KiCad, not needing to redo their designs from scratch at all and potentially no need to fix them whenever possible (ideal, but not easy at all). This usually ends in abusive DRM, bugs, very expensive costs for certain features, etc. * The exceptions extremelly pragmatical, because they are some file formats for final board manufacturing: RS-274X (Extended Gerber Format), IPC-2581 (that won the "ODB++ Wars" with Mentor finally joining "Offspring", "OpenAccess", etc * This is bad for competition: It gives advantages to bigger developers, creating monopolies and make users very unhappy with (usually) bad done software.
Quote Because of interoperability reasons - vendor lock-in in EDA is done mostly because of using obscure file formats.
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