Recovering the pcb outline svg from a .fzz file

@vanepp wrote:

I recently needed to recover the svg for a board outline with only the fzz file. Because the source svg is in the fzz file. Since I had to do this I figured I document how to do it for other people.

1. un zip the .fzz file to get the .fz file which is standard xml so edit the fz file with a text editor.

2. search for the text ’ instance moduleIdRef=“BoardLogoImageModuleID” ’

3. select the data after ’ <property name=“shape” value=" ’ til ’ </svg> ’ and copy that text in to a new svg file.

4. You now have an svg file but is quoted, so you need to unquote it to create a svg file that a svg editor will accept it. So edit the file and do the following substitutions (these are for vi or vim)

5. :1,$s/"/"/g which substitutes all lines (there is currently only one line but later there will be lines) that is the 1.$ part. The s/ substitutes " to " the / ends the substitution, and the g causes substitution for all instances on the line. This should let you modify the command for your editor.

6. :1,$s/>/>/g to do the greater thans (>)

7. :1,$s/</</g to do the less thans. Then (otherwise the ones above screw up!)

8. :1,$s/&#10/\r/g to replace the quoted newlines with a new line

Now if you save the result you can feed it to an svg editor.

Peter

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