There's a zillion new file formats and some weak efforts at providing a standard one.įor example: It's mandatory for my school to send projects in Eagle for schematics and PCBs, Proteus for simulation.
#DIPTRACE TO EAGLE SOFTWARE#
If I were able to use a common file format or export to the formats of those apps, I would be able any other EDA software such as DipTrace. So 100% interoperability with Eagle is mandatory for my use case, no exceptions. Diptrace can read Eagle files, I don't know if it can export anything that Eagle can read. It's bad for competition, it creates monopolies and make users very unhappy with bad done software. Kicad files don't seem to be exchangeable with any other program.īut I'd be surprised if the mill needed anything Diptrace can't export.
But again, I'd be surprised if it couldn't export something the mill could read. That's why big names in EDA stay alive, despite their software is very buggy. National Instruments' OECL (Open EDA Component Library) They get rich by vendor lock-in and customer support. There was EDIF (Electronic Design Interchange Format) but it seems little apps use it. I think small EDA developers should make something like OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) and form a coallition to have a proper interoperability by using the same file format and provide importing filters of their former ones.
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