How do I import a Mentor Board Station netlist for layout in Kicad?

Remy

2008-03-27 22:30:50 UTC

Post by tpetersen74
Currently we use Mentor Design Architect as schematic tool and Mentor
Board Station for layout.
An additional Board Station licence is expensive, and I want to
evaluate Kicad for layout of simple boards i.e. 2 / 4 layers
prototypes or the like.
To keep a link to our existing component library and part number
system I want to continue to use Design Architect as schematic tool
and import the netlist to Kicad.
How do I do that?
Regards
Torben Petersen

Hi Torben,
PCBNew, the kicad PCB design tool, accepts Netlist files with
the EESchema or ORCAD PCB 2 formats. So, if you can export from Mentor
Design Architect in Orcad PCB 2, you can try that solution.

Remy.

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