Re: [Qucs-devel] Exporting Netlists for Circuit Design Software

[Thomas.lepoix <tho...@pr...>]

Hi there!

As for now your tool is a standalone script, I think the simplest solution to produce a netlist from a schematic file is to consider the '-n' argument of the Qucs command line interface.



‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Monday 6 April 2020 17:13, Chris via Qucs-devel <quc...@li...> wrote:

> I can use a gEDA utility to convert a gEDA schematic into the Altium (ex
> Protel1/ex Tango) format. I can load this into circuit board design
> software.
>
> I would prefer to use Qucs, so I have written a Python script:
>
> This can take a Qucs schematic file and produce an Altium format file
> (part example below and full example attached), the schematic only
> contains components, so the Altium file only contains components - no nets.
>
> If I also want the nets it is a rather long-winded process:
>
> 1.  Simulation>Simulate
>
> 2.  Simulation>Show last netlist
>
> 3.  Click on "Show last netlist" tab.
>
> 4.  Cut and paste contents of "Show last netlist" tab to a file with .sim
>     extension.
>
> 5.  Run the script on that file.
>     This produces an Altium format file, the "Show last netlist" file
>     contains both components and nets, so the Altium file contains both
>     components and nets.
>
>     It would be much easier if this could all be run from Qucs. I suppose
>     this might be a plugin, but I have looked at
>     https://qucs-help.readthedocs.io but can't find anything on plugins.
>     At least it would help to have a file export option which did steps 1-4.
>
>     If this script might be useful to others I can upload it.
>     I am adding the most common Qucs components to a part list to translate
>     them into types acceptable to Altium, but could do with help finding the
>     libraries.
>
>     [
>     C1
>     CAP_CERAMIC
>     100 nF
>
>     ]
>     (
>     net1
>     C1-1
>     R5-1
>     R8-2
>     )
>
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