[PCB_FORUM] Re: protel to allegro

Yeah, you can do that if you like a lot of pain.
It is very time consuming and painful to recreate
a board from gerbers.
I recommend that you try very hard to find another way.

Kevin McCowan
Sr. PCB Designer
TSI Telsys

Clyde Sprowl wrote:
As long as you have Gerbers, you can capture your design verbatim. Practically every CAD system has a way to import artwork. At that point, you should be able to create a new design from it.

*/alan fisch <alanfisch@xxxxxxxxx>/* wrote:

    I beleive so.

    */Clyde Sprowl <pwb_engineer@xxxxxxxxx>/* wrote:

        Do they have Gerbers?

        */alan fisch <alanfisch@xxxxxxxxx>/* wrote:

                    Good morning all

                    I have a potential customer asking about old Protel
                    data and schematic archives. He has the old archives
                    and needs some edits made and then move forward to a
                    new layout. Since I use Allegro studio and have
                    never been asked to do such a translation I was
                    hoping someone here could set me straight as to
                    whether or not I can even make old Protel files
                    compatible with Allegro or translate them into
                    useable Orcad Capture files.



                    Al


            
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