![]() ![]() On an aside, eagle file support took 15 minutes, as they use a nice open XML format, and even provide the schema file to help people interface to it. PCB documents are the problem, as they have lots of binary data and no ascii save option. It seems three approaches are used, either ascii files, or binary block files (with payloads filled with ascii or binary data) or complete binary blobs, depending on the file. Each altium file type can be opened in 7zip to see the internal file structure. One of the altium VARs offers this, so I assume they have done similar dev work, although maybe they have info under NDA. After poking round a bit I started to wonder whether it would be possible to convert back and forth between altium and eagle project formats (which would be useful for me). What I originally wanted to do was programmatically generate schematic and footprint libraries. ![]()
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