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Downgrading brd/sch from V5 -> V4

nickds1

I've been playing with V5, and very nice it is too! (thanks guys).

 

However, I publish a few designs on the web & elsewhere, and the bottom line

is that very few Eagle users will be on V5 for some time, especially as its

a cost-option and V4.16r2 is pretty stable.

 

So, can I save/export a V5 project in V4 format, such that V4 users can work

with it? Even MS Word allows this sort of functionality. A ULP that stripped

all the V5 extras (attributes etc.) would probably be the route to take...

 

Is this possible/has it been done?

 

Thanks

 

Nick

 

 

 

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  • On 2008/Jun/25 7:20 AM, in article g3t9q5$fs7$1@cheetah.cadsoft.de, "Richard

    Hammerl" <ric@cadsoft.de> wrote:

     

    Wouldn't a customer expect that the conversion in the older data

    format is without loss withour changes in his design?

    Ich think he would, and I think he is right with his expectation.

    But I see a lot of obstacles and traps for such a function.

     

    Complete conversion without loss of data?  I wouldn't expect that.  General

    functionality?  Probably.

     

    I think you're trying to save your customers from themselves.  But in this

    case it's not that bad.  You have the original already.  File->Save As won't

    overwrite the file, it will create a new file.  A simple warning to say

    (just like Word or other similar programs) that saving to old formats may

    have data loss is sufficient.  The user can save it out and then see if that

    is sufficient.

     

    The arcs issues isn't a big deal at all, at least to us.  Of all the boards

    we've done I've used arcs maybe twice.  So if I had to redo those by hand

    I'd be more than happy to do that.

     

    I do realise that some things have changed but there's a lot that hasn't and

    saving it out would be useful for us in particular and many people in

    general.

     

    Cheers,

     

    James.

     

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  • On 2008/Jun/25 7:20 AM, in article g3t9q5$fs7$1@cheetah.cadsoft.de, "Richard

    Hammerl" <ric@cadsoft.de> wrote:

     

    Wouldn't a customer expect that the conversion in the older data

    format is without loss withour changes in his design?

    Ich think he would, and I think he is right with his expectation.

    But I see a lot of obstacles and traps for such a function.

     

    Complete conversion without loss of data?  I wouldn't expect that.  General

    functionality?  Probably.

     

    I think you're trying to save your customers from themselves.  But in this

    case it's not that bad.  You have the original already.  File->Save As won't

    overwrite the file, it will create a new file.  A simple warning to say

    (just like Word or other similar programs) that saving to old formats may

    have data loss is sufficient.  The user can save it out and then see if that

    is sufficient.

     

    The arcs issues isn't a big deal at all, at least to us.  Of all the boards

    we've done I've used arcs maybe twice.  So if I had to redo those by hand

    I'd be more than happy to do that.

     

    I do realise that some things have changed but there's a lot that hasn't and

    saving it out would be useful for us in particular and many people in

    general.

     

    Cheers,

     

    James.

     

    --

     

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    ~                                          ~

    ~  James Morrison  ~~~  Stratford Digital  ~

    ~                                          ~

    ~  email:  sales@eagletoolkit.com          ~

    ~  fax:    888.701.8097                    ~

    ~  web:    http://www.eagletoolkit.com     ~

    ~                                          ~

    ~  Online EAGLE Dealer for US and Canada   ~

    ~  EAGLE Design Experts                    ~

    ~  EAGLE Enterprise Toolkit                ~

    ~                                          ~

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

     

     

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