[PCB_FORUM] Re: Express PCB to Allegro?
- From: "Ritter, Alan" <Alan.Ritter@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 09:33:26 -0500
Expresspcb.com is a PCB fab service that has their own freeware toolkit.
Very basic schematic capture and board layout software, and you email their
native files to them for fab. Never see Gerbers or anything else standard
out of the process. However, you can get 3 boards, 2-layer, 2.5" x 3.8",
out of them for about $60, delivered. (no soldermask, no silk at those
prices, but adequate for bench prototyping simple things)
Given they want customers to be captive to their fab, it seems unlikely that
they will provide anything to translate their output into any industry
standards. Their native files are in their own binary format and they don't
even output a netlist in the process of creating a board.
I've used them for garage-shop stuff and for quick-and-dirty
proof-of-concept prototyping but always figured "real" boards would have to
be re-captured manually for anything that had to become a production design.
/s/jar (alan.ritter@xxxxxxxxxx)
http://www.mtritter.org
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From: Jean Bratton [mailto:jean.bratton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 7:56 AM
To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: Express PCB to Allegro?
I never heard of that tool, but it has to output something to build the
board. Ask them what that is, and maybe you can work with it to convert it
to gerber?
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From: icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of arimitsu seiji
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 11:50 PM
To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Express PCB to Allegro?
Hi Everyone,
We have recently ran into a customer that has created boards using Express
PCB. We were asked to remake this board using Allegro with slight change.
I was wondering if there was anyway to convert these files made by Express
PCB (..pcb and .sch) to files that we can use by Allegro.
Also, we asked for the gerber files, but I was informed by our customer that
Express PCB does not output gerber files.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thank you,
Seiji
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