When importing an Altium project, the handler only recognized
PcbDoc files. Projects that reference Circuit Studio, Circuit
Maker, or SolidWorks PCB files (CSPcbDoc, CMPcbDoc, SWPcbDoc)
had their board silently skipped. Map each extension to its
correct PCB_IO plugin type so the right parser is used.
Add a schematic importer for gEDA and Lepton EDA .sch files.
The importer parses the full gEDA file format including
components, nets, buses, attributes, text, graphical
primitives, and paths with bezier curves.
A builtin symbol library ships 39 standard gEDA symbols so
import works without a gEDA installation. Symbol resolution
follows an 11-step search chain matching native gEDA/Lepton
conventions across environment variables, system paths, XDG
directories, RC files, config files, and project directories.
Last-found-wins priority matches native gEDA behavior.
RC file parsing handles gafrc and gschemrc component-library
directives. Lepton-EDA INI configs (lepton.conf, geda.conf)
are also parsed.
Project import reads gEDA .prj files and discovers schematics
and PCBs automatically.
File format knowledge and embedded symbol definitions derived
from gEDA/gaf (C) 1998-2010 Ales Hvezda, 1998-2016 gEDA
Contributors, and Lepton EDA (C) 2017-2024 Lepton EDA
Contributors. Both licensed under GNU GPL v2 or later.
Add complete import support for PADS ASCII (.asc) files, covering both
PCB layouts and schematics. The importer handles board outlines, copper
pours, routing with via inference, footprint decals, net assignment,
design rules, and component placement for PCB files. For schematics, it
supports symbol building from CAEDECAL definitions, multi-gate and
multi-variant parts, power symbols, wire routing, net labeling, arc
graphics, title blocks, and hierarchical sheet connectivity.
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/19944
When importing Altium projects, the MAIL_ADD_LOCAL_LIB handler stored
absolute paths in the sym-lib-table for native Altium library files
(.SchLib). This caused broken library references when the project was
moved to a different location.
Now library files outside the project directory are copied into it
during import, and the sym-lib-table URI uses ${KIPRJMOD}/ prefix
for project-relative paths. This matches the behavior of the Eagle,
CADSTAR, and EasyEDA Pro importers.
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/22941
Altium projects save relative sub folder paths in the windows path
format. To import these correctly, we need to turn off the escape
character handling in wx's config file processing otherwise
SUBFOLDER\PROJECT.SchDoc ends up looking like SUBFOLDERROJECT.SchDoc
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/issues/20161
Handle Altium project file format
Parse individual schematic files and layout files
Create top-level schematic file
Link imported UUIDs between schematic symbol and footprints based on
refdes
Create KiCad project
Map Altium layout layers between KiCad
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/2117
Recommendation is to avoid using the year nomenclature as this
information is already encoded in the git repo. Avoids needing to
repeatly update.
Also updates AUTHORS.txt from current repo with contributor names
dropping files to Kicad manager :
*.kicad_pro, *.pro -> open project;
gerber and job files -> open in Gerbview editor;
Eagle and Cadstar files -> open project.
dropping file to schematic editor -> append schematic;
dropping library file to Symbol editor -> add library;
dropping board file to PCB editor -> append board;
dropping library or footprint file to Footprint editor -> add library or import footprint;
dropping ZIP file or gerber files to Gerbview editor -> open files;
dropping sheet file to Drawing Sheet editor -> open sheet.
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/11638
Seth Hillbrand