How to parse the Data.dat.txt of Pads6? about altium2kicad

[thesourcerer8]

Which information do you need about the pads? If you figure anything out, please let me know. Will the software you are developing be OpenSource? I would be interested in it.

[7Chen]

Coordinate, size and type of pads, and the relationship between pads and components is also my interest.
I use Altium, it is not opensource. What puzzled me is the coding mode, it seems like combined ascii and binary data, Altium hided the details.

[thesourcerer8]

I have improved the Pads parsing a lot lately. convertpcb.pl currently outputs a file Pads.html where it writes an annotated hex-dump of the pads binary data. It marks all fields it understand in yellow, and when you move the mouse over the yellow fields, it explains which field it is.
A short explanation: At first every pad starts with the record-type byte, which is always 0x02, then there are 6 fields, that all have a 4-byte length field and then the contents of those fields. The first field contains the name of the pad, and the 5th field contains the interesting data, coordinates, size and type of the pad.