usage of AltiumSharp as an bridge to EasyEDA about altiumsharp

[issus]

You certainly could use AltiumSharp for this, i'd be interested to see how you get along. I'm working on an open source program to arrange schematic symbols to meet my library's standards and create symbols that are going to allow readable schematics (ie: not just matching the package arrangement) - so EasyEDA could be a really interesting source for pinout data for that.

AltiumSharp has been working very well for my uses so far, its still got a few unknown fields in Altium files but seems to cover all the major stuff.

The lack of 3d models is a bit sad, I have a bit over 1000 hand made STEP models in my Altium Library repo if you need any. There are also plenty of online OBJ to STEP converters, so I imagine you can find a command line utility too.

[alexgubanow]

easyeda has 50/50 percent of nice sch symbols, I would say. Sometimes its nice, sometimes better to switch your eyes off. We can try to implement some standartizator, but I believe to be possible run it in auto mode, we need many rules, probably based on prefix, since easyeda doesn't have field for type of component
for 3d models, that is later future))
just wrote an proof of concept of idea, just an downloader lets say, you can take a look here, implemented only pads conversion, no silk or other layers, all pads treated as smt top layer
And have few questions:

• have found limitation of your library, there is no such pad as Polygon, how do you create pads for oscillators? they have rectangular pads, but one of them have cut corner, how do you describe such?
• it would be much nicer to have nuget package out of your library and probably you have to cut it into pieces, like AltiumSharpIO, AltiumSharpDraw, AltiumSharpCore. Because I'm not interested in Drawing part of your project, but it carrying relative dependencies.
• As well as I have some assets files in my build directory, why so? I haven't targeted Winforms project, which I assume uses those.
• Why do we need OpenMcdf library?

[issus]

Personally, I'm mostly interested in schematic symbols as they take the longest to create manually, and the longest to create programmatically heh.

If you're not sure how to create something programmatically with AltiumSharp, create it in Altium first then open the file in AltiumSharp to see what objects you have in your component. All the object types should be supported ;)

NuGet is definitely on the todo list for these libraries, just a matter of free time.

Not sure what assets you have/why

Altium files are Microsoft compound document files. OpenMcdf provides a way to open/read them easily.

[alexgubanow]

are u willing to merge my prs? did u review them? two weeks passed, c'mon

[ttimasdf]

EasyEDA have many symbols indeed, but of low quality. The 3D models are using a standard obj format (similar to KiCad's wrl), very hard to convert back to STEP format, especially in batch.

You will get far more troubles than you think. Read through the source code of AltiumSharp could be a start. At least think before you ask. You are reverse engineering two products. If reading code is too hard for you, then I think this whole thing is a waste of time

PS: I'm using their Chinese variant LCEDA which may not exactly the same as EasyEDA