Re: PADS to Orcad PCB Editor

On Apr 2, 8:34 am, "Joel" <joelben...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm making a circuit that uses part of an older design. I'd like to be
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 of
both the old circuit and my new design. I'd like to import it to PCB
editor. How should I go about importing all of this? Will I be able to
make netlist changes in capture and have them work in PCB editor?

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.
.

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