’s first step towards using an Altium file with his own tools was opening it up with a hex editor. Altium is one of the worst offenders, but by diving into the binary files it’s possible to reverse engineer these proprietary file formats into something nearly human-readable. Not all EDA softwares are created equally, and a lot of vendors use binary file formats as a way to keep their market share. Now anyone can write their own design tools for Eagle without mucking about with binary files. Several times in the last few weeks, I’ve heard people say, ‘this will be the last PCB I design in Eagle.’ That’s bad news for CadSoft, but if there’s one thing Eagle has done right, its their switch to an XML file format.
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