eagle library import

can you provide documentation on the eagle library format?

I believe it is binary, but you could write an Eagle ULP to extract symbols (assuming you had Eagle to start with)

There are some eagle -> KiCad converters here, which might be of interest:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/m-pad/files/Scripts/

Eagle format is now XML. I'm working a program to convert the .brd files to .pcb, but currently writing it in C++.

Kicad module (i.e. footprint) import is now supported with a java utility:

https://github.com/erichVK5/KicadModuleToGEDA

If you can convert your eagle footprint to a kicad module with either

https://github.com/DanChianucci/Eagle2Kicad

or

https://github.com/Jantek/Eagle2Kicad.ulp

you can then convert them into PCB footprints.

Hi, Erich.

We could probably add those links onto our pcb footprint generators page.
What do you think?

Thanks,
  Vladimir

there is now a utility to import

BXL, BSDL, IBIS, symdef, Eagle footprints, and Eagle symbols to PCB and gschem formats

https://github.com/erichVK5/translate2geda

work is ongoing to refine conversion and to rehabilitate symbols with strange pin spacing.

Existing code for Kicad module and symbol translation will be merged with it in due course

P.S.

Vladimir, feel free to add links to the wiki.