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Re:Upverter (YC W11): the perfect tool for open-source hardware by rcfox on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @03:21PM (#2993051)
Github would have also gone nowhere if they only supported code written in one text editor.

Most EDA software is written by companies who have no interest in letting you see how their proprietary formats work.

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Re:Upverter (YC W11): the perfect tool for open-source hardware by patrickyeon on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @03:28PM (#2993093)
> Most EDA software is written by companies who have no interest in letting you see how their proprietary formats work.

Oh boy, I know it, and it's been a pain in my side. However, EAGLE (lots of hobbiests use it) is migrating to a fully-documented XML-based format [1], and there are two open-source projects for schematic capture, kicad and geda, which would give someone a head start on parsing their design files, at least.

[1] http://www.element14.com/community/message/15751

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Re:Upverter (YC W11): the perfect tool for open-source hardware by zakhomuth on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @03:43PM (#2993174)
Hey rcfox, Zak from Upverter here. We are planning to release import/export and an open file format by the end of the month. We have altium, eagle, kicad and geda converters in the works too!
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