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abetuskabetusk 08/28/2015 at 22:020 Comments

Very experimental "kicad_pcb" export is now available. kicad_pcb is the "new" KiCAD export format. The previous iteration (the one with a ".brd" extension) is being deprecated in lieu of the "kicad_pcb" format.

The "kicad_pcb" format is in something called "s-expression". The conversion tool created was one that goes from MeowCAD's internal JSON format to the "s-expression" format that the "kicad_pcb" files use.

You can see the new code on my GitHub page, specifically the json2kicad_pcb.py that does the conversion.

I've successfully exported the 'h8ARt' project. Here's a screenshot:

It's probably got a lot of issues but it's a start.

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