Import Cadence OrCAD/Allegro schematics/layouts
I wonder whether there is a huge demand for importing OrCAD/Allegro designs into KiCad. The Altium importer is based on reverse engineering the data format, the same should be possible for Cadence’s file formats.
I just want to get some overview how many of you would appreciate an importer like that. Maybe it's possible to gather some people and do the RE on the file format. Personally I would like to see a direct import.
Please just give a thumbs up if you like the idea --- want to see this feature in the future.
The dev team has probably more important features to work on, so this is not to be considered as a todo for them but rather as a community project. Not sure if this creates just noise in the issue tracker but I would like to gather some info and people, therefore I would appreciate if you could keep this issue open.
KiCad Version
Application: KiCad PCB Editor (64-bit)
Version: (5.99.0-10636-gdb900fe526), release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.1.5
libcurl/7.74.0-DEV Schannel zlib/1.2.11
Platform: Windows 10 (build 19042), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:
Date: May 25 2021 20:59:46
wxWidgets: 3.1.5 (wchar_t,STL containers)
Boost: 1.75.0
OCC: 7.5.0
Curl: 7.74.0-DEV
ngspice: 34
Compiler: Visual C++ 1928 without C++ ABI
Build settings:
KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
KICAD_USE_OCC=ON
KICAD_SPICE=ON