Group: The other group requested all our Cadence files for a particular board. They use PADs and requested a netlist file. I know orcad creates .dat files, I'm asking can these files be used to create a .pcb file? Is the DSN file sufficient? I don't much about PADs, hopefully someone here can help. We have Cadence, they have PADs. Thanks again, Sam -----Original Message----- From: David Price <davidp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: icu-pcb-forum <icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wed, Jan 25, 2012 8:33 am Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: Netlist from Orcad(cadence) Yes, Capture formatted netlist can be used as a schemaic frontend toPADs. Capture is often the schematic preferred choice for PADsusers. David At 10:05 AM 1/25/2012, you wrote: Group, Can I usethe netlist from Orcad and import into pads? I'm using Cadence 16.3 and our other site is using Mentor's PADs. Thanks, Sam