- PADS to Orcad PCB Editor
- Posted by Joel on April 2nd, 2008
I'm making a circuit that uses part of an older design. I'd like to b
able to keep the layout exactly the way it was on the old board.
I have a PADS 2005 ASCII file of the old board and Orcad Capture files o
both the old circuit and my new design. I'd like to import it to PC
editor. How should I go about importing all of this? Will I be able t
make netlist changes in capture and have them work in PCB editor?
- Posted by JeffM on April 2nd, 2008
Joel wrote:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.e...chanical-layer
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.electronics.cad/browse_frm/thread/f85d28a336c67dae/7a528d64a1391bbb?q=*-*-have-equivalents-in-*-other-packages+supports+retrieve.data+doesn't+flawed+lim itations-*-what-will-import-successfully+magical-tool+*-*-*-limited-*-list-of-compatible-versions+zz-zz+qq+Autovue+exist
- Posted by ghelbig@lycos.com on April 2nd, 2008
On Apr 2, 8:34 am, "Joel" <joelben...@gmail.com> wrote:
The last time I tried, OrCAD PCB had a hard time with newer PADS ASCII
files.
One can import it into PADS, and re-export it as an older version. Or
a PERL script could be written that strips out the features of the
newer format that are not supported in the older format (mostly
related to mixed plane layers if I recall correctly) and rewrites it
in the older format.
G.
