Importing OrCAD netlist into KiCAD (pcbnew)

[Bnjamn]

Hello everybody,

I just wanted to suggest the development of a plugin to KiCAD that could convert a netlist made from OrCAD (.rnif format for example) to KiCAD.

We recently had this need in my company.
I’ve been able to help myself using this script found on github.
-----> GitHub - bobc/rnif2ki: Orcad to KiCAD netlist converter

I think we are a lot concerned by this need.
Exporting a netlist from eeschema to different CADs soft exist already.
Why not implementing the same into “pcbnew” ? (importing netlists from different CADs)

what do you think ?
It may be added to the upcoming updates ?

I can provide examples of netlist to help the dev.

Best,
Benjamin.

[pedro]

As pcbnew is able to import a kicad netlist, there is no need to implement an importer from other programs.
A program/script to convert other netlists to kicad netlist is enough.
I do not know if mif2ki is able to produce a v6 readable netlist anyway.

[Keonte45]

I think I agree with Pedro.

[Bnjamn]

Hello,

thanks for the feedbacks.
I understand that one netlist format is enough in the case we are running an external sotware for conversion.

Maybe it could be usefull to highlist such softwares for users ?
I don’t know how perhaps…

It does exist a rnif2ki version that works for V5 & V6.
The only bad point is that we need to re-associate footprint manually.

Best,