Seiji, Is the PADS database in binary or ASCII? If it is ASCII then you can read the database into Cadence Allegro and then extract the library from that. If it is binary then I think you are out of luck. Thanks Tony Cosentino Tekelec Hardware Engineer 919-460-3656 ________________________________ From: icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of arimitsu seiji Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 2:28 PM To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Extracting symbol from PADs then into Allegro Hi all, I recently received a PADS board with a symbol I would like to extract if it's possible. The customer does not have a datasheet for this part for some reason and wants me to extract the data from the PADs board. We do not have PADS and I have downloaded the evaluation from Mentor. Is it possible to export this library and import into allegro format or does anyone have a better suggestion? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you in advance. Seiji ----------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe/unsubscribe: Send a message to icu-pcb-forum-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject of subscribe or unsubscribe To view the archives of this list go to //www.freelists.org/archives/icu-pcb-forum/ Problems or Questions: Send an email to icu-pcb-forum-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -----------------------------------------------------------