How to import OrCAD designs to KiCad

[paulvdh]

Converting via altium probably works if altium can import orcad projects.
You could always ask on a forum if someone with a license for that program can do it for you.

There are probably also commercial companies which do such conversions for a fee. There are even companies specialized in reverse engineering PCB’s. You send them a PCB, they peel it off layer by layer and create gerber files. And apparently the fee is only a few hundred EUR.

And you always have the option to reverse engineer a KiCad PCB from gerber files.
The process is not flawless, but it’s a lot better then “nothing”.

Reverse engineering KiCad project from Gerber files

The goal of this reverse-engineering tutorial is to re-create a complete KiCad project from partial information assuming the only information available is a schematic in some readable, (but not EDA form, such as a .pdf or a .png picture), and a set of gerber files. The Gerber files will create a PCB with much PCB information missing, however, using this method is easier than re-designing a PCB from scratch, and can also be extended to any other program that creates Gerber files. What is “resc…