Re: [PEDA] Importing Pads to Protel

2002-03-22 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 06:34 PM 3/21/2002 -0600, Matt Pobursky wrote: Protel99SE will import Orcad 7.2 schematic files just fine -- I have done it a couple dozen times now. My problems had been with 7.0 or 7.1, I think or my memory is defective on this, it has been some time Abdulrahman Lomax

[PEDA] Importing Pads to Protel

2002-03-21 Thread Frank Gilley
I have my first occasion to translate a PADS v3.0 .asc file to protel pcb. Well, naturally it won't work for whatever reason. After an option dialog box, it attempts to translate and returns with 248 errors. Nothing is actually translated from what I can see. The error log seems to indicate

Re: [PEDA] Importing Pads to Protel

2002-03-21 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:45 PM 3/21/2002 -0600, Frank Gilley wrote: Anyone use this feature and know how to get it to work? I did translate a PADS file once and it worked. But it was some time ago and I don't know what version. I'd be a little surprised, in fact, if Protel could import Pads 3.0, but someone else

Re: [PEDA] Importing Pads to Protel

2002-03-21 Thread Cobbe,John
Hi Frank The opj and dsn files are orcad project and schematic files respectively It's been a while but I've translated fairly large (multiple gnd fill layers) databases with a reasonable level of success, although it's never as seamless as the marketing wipes would have you believe. The

Re: [PEDA] Importing Pads to Protel

2002-03-21 Thread Frank Gilley
Abdulrahman, I did translate a PADS file once and it worked. But it was some time ago and I don't know what version. I'd be a little surprised, in fact, if Protel could import Pads 3.0, but someone else will probably know better. From the Protel PADS translator readme: The translator

Re: [PEDA] Importing Pads to Protel

2002-03-21 Thread Bagotronix Tech Support
- From: Frank Gilley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 4:49 PM Subject: Re: [PEDA] Importing Pads to Protel Abdulrahman, I did translate a PADS file once and it worked. But it was some time ago and I don't know what version. I'd be a little

Re: [PEDA] Importing Pads to Protel

2002-03-21 Thread Mike Reagan
EDSI Frederick MD - Original Message - From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 4:21 PM Subject: Re: [PEDA] Importing Pads to Protel At 02:45 PM 3/21/2002 -0600, Frank Gilley wrote: Anyone use this feature

Re: [PEDA] Importing Pads to Protel

2002-03-21 Thread Matt Pobursky
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 16:21:33 -0500, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: Those look like OrCAD files to me. .dsn would be a Capture file, the schematic. .opj, I don't know, but an .opj file often accompanies Capture files, as I recall. Protel imports Capture v. 9, earlier versions usually fail as I