Hi,
Is anyone looking into developing a plugin to open ODB++ ZIP files?
This format is becoming a standard among manufacturers.
Thanks.
open as in editable in KiCad? I don’t think this is easily possible. Or open as in view it in KiCad similar to Gerbview?
Sorry for the snarky reply, but “becoming a standard among manufacturers” is an understatement. It has been the standard for 2 decades already. It’s Gerber files, that started changing that fact.
As @ Mineotopia mentioned, it depends on what you are trying to solve for. KiCAD is a CAD tool, not a CAM tool, so I don’t think it’s even possible to make an editor for ODB files in Kicad with just a plugin.
This is the correct answer.
KiCad is not a CAM tool and we don’t plan to be.
Maybe one day we’ll have a import option for ODB++ similar to how we can make a kicad board from gerbers. But that’s a different workflow than CAM editing and isn’t causal editing either as tons of errors could occur.
Maybe the Gerber viewer can also be extended to viewing odb one day but that’s also significant amount of work beyond a “plugin”
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