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Importing from other tools

Lock2002

I'm having an outside vendor do some layout for us, but they don't have Allegro. The options are: Altium, PADS or Expedition. Which option would import with the fewest problems? 

I'm using Allegro 17.2 

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  • IMHO, Expedition is a black hole for designs.  Work goes in, can't translate it to anything else. 

    PADS would be the biggest compromise.  If you pay by the hour, service bureaus have to charge by the time it takes or they will never get customers to leave it alone and release.

    PADS has failed to evolve since the 90's.  No useful real-time DRCs, no crossprobing to a CIS schematic.   No PADS designer ever wants to take the time to rip up the one blocking trace to unblock a whole bunch of other traces. 

    Like someone clicked "autoroute" and an excess of vias showed up to wreck your power/gnd planes.

    It kills me to say this but Altium might be the lesser of all evils for  the simple reason they have the tools P*DS doesn't have:  better trace shoving, real-time DRCS leading to cleaner route solutions. 

    I would look for a shop that can do this in Orcad.  Allegro doesn't care.   And, Orcad has most of the same features but has cheaper software maintenance (might be cheaper than Altium).

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  • IMHO, Expedition is a black hole for designs.  Work goes in, can't translate it to anything else. 

    PADS would be the biggest compromise.  If you pay by the hour, service bureaus have to charge by the time it takes or they will never get customers to leave it alone and release.

    PADS has failed to evolve since the 90's.  No useful real-time DRCs, no crossprobing to a CIS schematic.   No PADS designer ever wants to take the time to rip up the one blocking trace to unblock a whole bunch of other traces. 

    Like someone clicked "autoroute" and an excess of vias showed up to wreck your power/gnd planes.

    It kills me to say this but Altium might be the lesser of all evils for  the simple reason they have the tools P*DS doesn't have:  better trace shoving, real-time DRCS leading to cleaner route solutions. 

    I would look for a shop that can do this in Orcad.  Allegro doesn't care.   And, Orcad has most of the same features but has cheaper software maintenance (might be cheaper than Altium).

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