[PCB_FORUM] Re: allegro to power pcb

;-), Anyone know of an Ample manual somewhere?





Kevin McCowan 
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Wrong group.
This is the Allegro group.
Ha. Ha.

Kevin McCowan

Andy_Kulik@xxxxxxx wrote:
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> How many different PCB tools does Mentor offer?
> Are there any customization capabilities such as Allegro Skill?
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> Hi Sam,
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> The concensus seems to be that with PowerPCB the only way to get a
> 'cadence like' database is to output the gerbers, run them thru CAM350 
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> import them to PowerPCB (PPCB doesn't import gerbers directly!). I've
> heard the question asked about 3-5 times on the PPCB listserver, but 
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> doesn't seem to be an easy way. Since Allegro doesn't output an ascii
> 'database' per se, Mentor hasn't worked out the translation. Supposedly
> there's a way to translate Allegro to Expedition, or is it AutoActiveRE?
>  From there you might be able to get it to PPCB, but I doubt it.
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> Good day.
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> Mitch
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>  > Group: Anyone tried to translate allegro pcb database to powerpcb?
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