[PCB_FORUM] Re: Specctra to Pads placement

  • From: "Gerry Meier" <gerry.meier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 15:18:11 -0700

Sorry it doesn't work that way - a Specctra session or route file can
only be read back into the same host system that generated the Specctra
DSN file. Specctra is not a Full Translator it's a routing/placement
tool. So everything you would need for a database conversion is not
there.

You can load routing from a PADS/Specctra session into a
Allegro/Specctra session. This would require you to translate from PADS
to Allegro first. Import > Pads and the write dsn files from both host
systems. Then you can write the routes from one .session and read into
the other. I guess if you had both tools but wanted to hand route in
Allegro and then take it back to Pads  this might work for you.

Gerry



 Gerry Meier 
Sr. PCB Designer 
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Austin Franklin
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 5:44 PM
To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: Specctra to Pads placement

So, technically...if I can go from PADS to Specctra without a hitch,
then can't I go from Specctra to Allegro without a hitch?

Austin


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>
> Actually the name is pcb2sp.exe
>
>
>  Gerry Meier
> Sr. PCB Designer
> Freedom CAD Services, Inc.
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> Alt. Voice: (386) 753-0048
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Weinberg, 
> Richard (Richard)
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 3:15 PM
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>
> OK Specctra. Then trust me. There is an exe file that gets installed 
> when you load Pads. I think that I had the name right (pcb2dsn.) Run 
> it, the rest is self explanatory.
>
> Richard Weinberg
> Agere Systems
> 207-846-4539
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Deac 
> Descoteaux
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> Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: Specctra to Pads placement
>
> spectra
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Weinberg, 
> Richard
> (Richard)
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 3:10 PM
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>
> Did you want Specctra the router or SpecctraQuest the signal explorer?
>
> Richard Weinberg
> Agere Systems
> 207-846-4539
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Deac 
> Descoteaux
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 2:48 PM
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> Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: Specctra to Pads placement
>
> I just spoke to a Pads FAE. He told me that Pads cannot except a 
> Spectraquest file.
>
> Deac
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 2:40 PM
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>
> You can. There is a tool called "pcb2dsn" that does the conversion. (I

> think that's the right name.)
>
> Richard Weinberg
> Agere Systems
> 207-846-4539
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> [mailto:icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Deac 
> Descoteaux
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 2:37 PM
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>
> Don!
>
> I spoke to an Allegro FAE and he said that it's not something that 
> Cadence would be aware of. It would have to be a pads question!
>
> Deac
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Don Folk
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 2:29 PM
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> Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Specctra to Pads placement
>
> Does anyone know if you can take a dsn file from Pads, read it into 
> Specctra, place the board in Specctra and read it into Pads with a 
> session file?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Don Folk
> KAW
> donf@xxxxxxx
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