Can design rules from Altium or Eagle (Eurocircuits) be imported in gEDA pcb?

• Can design rules from Altium or Eagle (Eurocircuits) be imported in gEDA pcb?
  Posted by VinzC on 09 Apr, 2016 08:55
• Hi all.
  
  I'm (still) using gEDA on personal and professional ground and have my PCB fabricated by Eurocircuits.com. So far I like how I manage with both but I'd like to make Eurocircuit rules the default for gEDA. Currently Eurocircuits publishes rules for Altium or Eagle. Needless to say I have neither and I run GNU/Linux (Mint on my laptop and Gentoo at home, for the record).
  
  So my question is: is there a way to import Altium or Eagle design rules into gEDA PCB?
  
  (I'm also considering switching to Kicad but it is not on topic right now.)
  
  Thanks in advance for any hint or suggestion.
• #1 Reply
  Posted by ScribblesOnNapkins on 12 Apr, 2016 00:25
• Look at the documentation on vendor file. It includes the design limits in the DRC area.
  
  http://pcb.geda-project.org/pcb-cvs/pcb.html#Vendor-drill-mapping
• #2 Reply
  Posted by VinzC on 12 Apr, 2016 17:06
• Quote from: ScribblesOnNapkins on 12 Apr, 2016 00:25

  Look at the documentation on vendor file. It includes the design limits in the DRC area.
  
  http://pcb.geda-project.org/pcb-cvs/pcb.html#Vendor-drill-mapping
  

  
  Thanks a lot, ScribblesOnNapkins! Can't believe after how long I sought I never came across this article  . That also answers my question with a "No but..." and given how little there is to do, "manually" is a perfectly valid option.
• #3 Reply
  Posted by ScribblesOnNapkins on 14 Apr, 2016 01:50
• If you have documentation for vendor files for the other packages that we can legally use to write a conversion utility then I will gladly work on it.
• #4 Reply
  Posted by VinzC on 18 Apr, 2016 21:25
• Quote from: ScribblesOnNapkins on 14 Apr, 2016 01:50

  If you have documentation for vendor files for the other packages that we can legally use to write a conversion utility then I will gladly work on it.
  

  
  I'm not sure I follow you, do you have something specific in mind?
• #5 Reply
  Posted by ScribblesOnNapkins on 29 Apr, 2016 03:14
• Typically when we can find a way to automatically do something we write a utility to do it. Sadly to do that you need open documentation from the vendor about where in the configuration/project files the info we need is stored and how to decode it.
• #6 Reply
  Posted by VinzC on 01 May, 2016 15:44
• Quote from: ScribblesOnNapkins on 29 Apr, 2016 03:14

  Typically when we can find a way to automatically do something we write a utility to do it. Sadly to do that you need open documentation from the vendor about where in the configuration/project files the info we need is stored and how to decode it.
  

  Ah, ok, get it now. I happen to do that, too, writing those things by hand in a repetitive manner gets somewhat boring indeed. Better have it handed to a script, that's true.
• #7 Reply
  Posted by ScribblesOnNapkins on 16 Nov, 2017 03:14
• Sorry for bumping an old thread but I forgot to mention this when it happened.
  
  We (pcb-rnd) can import design rules from Eagle. We can't from Altium ( yet )