Hi,
I’m having problems importing a netlist into VeeCAD, and wondered if anyone can give me a few pointers.
I am new to all of this (although not electronics in general), and have designed a simple schematic in KiCad.
It all checks out OK, so I exported the netlist.
When I try to import the netlist into VeeCAD, it just throws up an error.
I have tried exporting in all 4 formats from KiCad, but they all giver errors in VeeCad.
Does anyone here use VeeCad that can help me out?
Cheers,
Paul
Well, from the site:
I did a search on Kicad on their forum and came up empty but that might be a good place to check if you don’t get help here. Not sure the error message would mean much here but what is it when you try?
@FishMan I don’t know what will work, but I did a little bit of looking at the 5.1.4+ KiCad NetList Generation function. This feature is not intuitive to me at all.
Did you try this?:
Hi,
The error messages vary with the netlist type, but generally it starts with “Missing {something} on line xx”
The OrcadPCB2 option doesn’t give an error message as such, but imports a bunch of shapes (all the same) in the bottom right hand corner.
If I try to route them, nothing happens - they just stay there.
Cheers,
Paul
We depend on the users testing export functions. Developers usually won’t have the target application to try
Also in this case it is not even certain if the fault is in kicad or veecad as the netlist format used is not the native format of either of the two. the orcad netlist can really only be tested against orcad.
Orcad of a certain version
Solved !
It was a string of things.
You have to use the VeeCad library files ONLY (very limited number) after importing them into KiCad project.
Run VeeCad as Administrator.
Use the OrCad format for the netlist.
plus a few other little things to make it a bit smoother.
Lesson learnt.
Thanks for the inputs,
Paul
That sounds dangerous. Are you sure this is required? Might be worth a bug report at VeeCad if it is.
And also very limiting for what am guessing is the VeeCad target audience, like schools
I have never used VeeCad but it looks useful especially for quick projects. I also note that the author has recently decided to release the codebase as an open source project. It might be helpful for others interested in trying out VeeCad if you might be prepared to write out what you have worked out as a quick ‘how to’ use eeschema to prepare a net list?
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