In part this is for the reason kd0pgm mentioned… if I ever outgrow the free version of Eagle (unlikely as that is) the paid ones are just too much. It was pretty quick and easy for me to narrow things down to learning either GEDA or KiCAD. I’m still in the early stages of learning electronic CAD and have been dabbling with Eagle, KiCAD and GEDA. There are detailed instructions on ’s GitHub repository and he also walks through the process in the video. The scripts also convert Via’s to Pads, which helps with KiCad’s flood fill, when Via’s have no connections – this part requires some manual intervention and post processing. The Eagle 6.xx PCB files can be directly imported to KiCad. sch to KiCad multi sheets, place global and local net labels for multi sheets, convert multi part symbols, build KiCad footprint modules and symbol libraries from Eagle libraries, create a project directory to store all the converted files, and perform basic error checking. ’s scripts will convert Eagle multi sheet. The five scripts and one include file run sequentially once the first one is run.
The entire process took only about 10 to 15 minutes of clean up after running the scripts. Overall, the process works pretty well, and we were able to successfully convert two projects from Eagle. Board conversion is still done using KiCad’s built in converter, since it works quite well. has written a comprehensive set of Eagle to KiCad ULP scripts to convert schematics, symbols and footprints. But without a netlist to read and check for errors, that’s not too useful either. And for quite some time, KiCad has been able to open Eagle. An Eagle to KiCad ULP exists, but it only converts the schematic, albeit with errors and hence not too helpful. One barrier for those wanting to switch over from Eagle to KiCad has been the lack of a way to convert existing projects from one to the other.
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