Altium File to KiCAD

Software
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Hi,

I have an Altium Deisgner File which I have converted with altium2kicad-master to an kicad_pcb file…
When I open the kicad_pcb file with pcb_new I only see that I have:
0 Pads
20 Vias
2827 Track Segments
0 Nodes
43 Nets
0 Links
0 Connections
0 Unconnected

whats wrong ?

I have also the File as Eagle brd file

Many thanks
Dieter

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The altium2kicad perl script is still a bit of a WIP, if I am not mistaken.

Is the Eagle .brd file version 4/5 Eagle or XML ?

Regards,

Erich.

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Erich,

it is XML (Version 6.4)

Regards

Dieter

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Simply loading the XML .brd into kicad will be the least painful, most robust, and most tested, approach.

You may find that the eagle layout appears at the top left of the page layout in pcbnew, and needs to be moved into the centre of the kicad screen, due to differing coordinate systems.

An additional option for converting altium files is

in case there are things you desperately need to extract from them.

Regards,

Erich.

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Erich,
I am new to KiCAD. I have no idea how to do that. Ther is no open or import in PCBNEW
Thanks
Dieter

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You have to start pcbnew stand-alone for being able to do that.
Browse to the program folder and start it from there or via the start menu entry - not via the KiCAD project manager.

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many thanks, works fine
Dieter