At 09:31 AM 5/10/01 +1000, Steve Passmore wrote:
>I have a customer who needs to translate some Cadence PCB & Schematic
>files into Protel 99 SE format.
>[...]
>The sale of a number of Protel 99 SE seats depends on successful
>translation of these files.
>
>Does anybody have any contacts using Cadnece, or any suggestions as to how
>we can help this customer?
I believe it can be done. I will check with my contacts, there are a number
of possibilities. For one avenue, any version of Cadence would be okay, for
some others, the version might be important
I'm assuming that there *is* an ASCII format for Cadence that RSI can
translate.
If there is not, it is still possible to translate designs, if gerber is
available, but it could be a bit more cumbersome for a single board; if
many boards are being done, it would not be so bad. The basic idea is that
one reconstructs components from their gerber representation; track and
other primitives are easy to import from gerber. Rules will be lost, of
course, but that may not be too great a loss. Complex padstacks could be
another difficulty.
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