eagexp 0.1.0

export eagle schematic or board to image or partlist

eagexp can export eagle partlist or image (2D/3D) of schematic or board.

Links:

• home: https://github.com/ponty/eagexp

• documentation: http://ponty.github.com/eagexp

Features:

• written in python

• it can be used as library or as a command line program

• background processing (only if Xephyr, Xvfb and pyvirtualdisplay are installed)

• timeout

• 3D image export using Eagle3D and povray

• calculate airwires

Known problems:

• slow: eagle is opened and closed for each export

• high DPI does not work (memory problem?)

• Python 3 is not supported

• export can be blocked by eagle -> timeout

• 3D image export has a lot of options which are not supported

Basic usage

>>> from eagexp import image, partlist
>>> brd='~/.eagle/projects/examples/singlesided/singlesided.brd'
>>> image.export_image(brd, 'brd.png', resolution=600)
>>> print partlist.raw_partlist(brd)

How it works

1. start Xvfb headless X server using pyvirtualdisplay

2. redirect eagle display to Xvfb server by setting $DISPLAY variable.

3. start eagle with EXPORT and QUIT commands

Installation

General

• install eagle

• install povray (optional for 3D)

• install pip

• install PIL

• install pyvirtualdisplay , xvfb , xephyr (optional for background processing)

• install the program:

  # as root
  pip install eagexp

Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install eagle
sudo apt-get install povray
sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo apt-get install python-imaging

# optional for background processing
sudo apt-get install xvfb xserver-xephyr

sudo pip install eagexp

Uninstall

# as root
pip uninstall eagexp