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Reverse Engineering Design File Formats

More details can be found at https://hackaday.io/projects/hacker/185

Compiling and running

Clone repository and then run following to compile the code:

mvn install compile package

or just:

mvn package

This creates a JAR file with all the dependencies so that you can easily run on a command line:

java -jar target/final-altium-schematic-importer-1.0.jar -c <path/to/your/file.SchDoc>

Output looks something like:

Successful!

{
  "RECORD": "31",
  "CUSTOMY": "950",
  "children": [
    {
      "RECORD": "41",
      "NAME": "ConfigurationParameters",
      "TEXT": "*",
      "ISHIDDEN": "T",
      "READONLYSTATE": "1",
      "COLOR": "8388608",
      "OWNERPARTID": "-1",
      "FONTID": "1",
      "UNIQUEID": "QTURANBL"
    },
    {
      "Y3": "220",
      "Y4": "220",
      "X1": "1210",
      "Y1": "340",
      "X2": "1140",
      "RECORD": "6",
      "Y2": "340",
      "X3": "1140",
      "X4": "1210",
      "X5": "1210",
      "Y5": "340",
      "LINEWIDTH": "1",
      "LINESTYLE": "1",
      "OWNERPARTID": "-1",
      "LOCATIONCOUNT": "5",
      "COLOR": "16711680"
    },
    {
      "Y3": "980",
      "Y4": "980",
      "X1": "1240",
      "Y1": "1060",
      "X2": "1180",
      "RECORD": "6",
      "Y2": "1060",
      "X3": "1180",
      "X4": "1240",
      "X5": "1240",
      "Y5": "1060",
      "LINEWIDTH": "1",
      "LINESTYLE": "1",
      "OWNERPARTID": "-1",
      "LOCATIONCOUNT": "5",
      "COLOR": "16711680"
    },
    {
      "Y3": "750",
      "LOCATIONCOUNT": "4",
 .....
}

Alternatively, if you only want to unpack the Compund Document, invoke without -c parameter:

java -jar target/final-altium-schematic-importer-1.0.jar <path/to/your/file.SchDoc>

There is very little error checking (or none, as the case may be), because I wanted to keep the code as simple as possible. If you want to improve, please hack away!

If you use this or have any suggestions please let me know dstanko.au@gmail.com.