From Easy-PC to KiCAD

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Hello,
I have some designs that are made at Easy-PC , it produces .sch and .pcb files format. I would like to know if I can import the to KiCAD and then to Altium designer.
Best ragards,
Panagiotis

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The files with .sch and .pcb extensions are completely incompatible in the different PCB software

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If you also have the Gerber files, then you can load them in KiCad’s Gerbview, and then back-export to a .KiCad_pcb.

A lot of infomation is simply missing from the gerber files, but there is enough to recover to make this route worthwhile.

What you can recover:

  • PCB outline.
  • Mounting hole locations.
  • All copper tracks.
  • Via locations.
  • Placement of Footprints (Implicitly by the endpoints of tracks.)
  • Netlist (Implicitly by the locations of re-created footprints)

The schematic re-creation is a manual job. The workflow is like:

  • Redraw the schematic from a (paper or .pdf) example.
  • Assign footprints as normal in Eeschema.
  • Get the footprints into Pcbnew with [F8].
  • Place the imported footprints in Pcbnew over the existing copper tracks.
  • Do a DRC check.
  • Repeat until DRC errors are gone.
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