Importing Specctra SES files into Eagle Cad

Hi Kvik,

You can import dxf files into EAGLE using dxf2scr. You can find it on the website www.cadsoftusa.com-> Downloads->Miscellaneous.

hth,

Jorge Garcia

Thnx for the reply Jorge

Ok so dxf2scr is not working for me. I tried running the SCR it generates in a empty brd files.. and nothing happens. I looked at the dxf file that topor generates with a third part dxf viewer and it looks fine.  The description for dxf2scr says it only does "board outlines from AutoCAD to Eagle" so it may not import the routing anyway.

I tried dxf2scr-1 , its look like its just a clone with a gui , and it doesn't work too.

the DXF importer from EagleCad power tools, seems to be the only one that kinda works. It presemnts me a list of layers in the dxf and how they should be transfered to eaglecad like top to layer 1 , bottom to layer 16. But when i run it it only seems to translate the pads and not the traces and routing. Could be because I'm running it in demo mode. 

Hi Vikram,

Please make sure that the dxf is "exploded" in other words it should only be made up of single lines. If the dxf files has polylines, NONE of the dxf scripts I mentioned will work properly. So make sure to explode the route before exporting it as a dxf, otherwise you will have these issues.

I have no experience with freerouting.net so I won't be able to guide as to how to export and exploded layout, but this should help alot.

hth,

Jorge Garcia

Topor doesn't give me the option for that :/ . Heres the screenshot of TopoRs dxf export window

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4668926/dxf_export.jpg

Hi Vikram,

Do you have access to AutoCAD or Solidworks? You could open the DXF file there, explode it and then re-export it as a DXF (now exploded). That should work.

Wow that worked Jorge. My coworker had a copy of autocad , and he was able to explode the dxf file and save it again.

Now dxf2scr, dxf2scr-1, d2e_110 all worked  But dxf2scr and d2c_110 imported it in wrong scale. dxf2scr-1 was the only one that imported it in right scale and position. But it brought all the traces in layer 20. I couldn't change the layer to top layer 1 or bottom layer 16.

Ok I edited the scr file that dxf2scr-1 generated to post everything in layer top instead  of dimension , it helped..but its messy.

Earlier this year, I hacked a very limited SES-to-SCR converter for exactly the same purpose: getting Topor routings back to Eagle. Since I asked in various forums and no one seemed to be interested in it, I didn't bother to put more work into it since it's already doing all I need.

Try it if you like:

http://www.retrode.org/upload/ses2scr.exe <input.ses> <output.scr>

Hi Matthias,

looks to be a very useful tool. If you don't mind you could upload it at the CadSoft web server at http://www.cadsoft.de/upload.htm . I am sure it will be highly appreciated by the EAGLE User community.

Thank you.

Richard

Can do, though you need to be aware that it really has strong limitations: 2 layers. Wires only (straight lines and arcs). No part placement. No via parameters. Reads only so-and-so-many lines in the SES file. And so on, and so forth. All of these should be pretty easy to fix if someone is really interested in it.

Here's a PWM board for LEDs that I routed in Topor (manually; push-and-shove is gold!!), after re-import in Eagle: