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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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  • Hi Lock

    Honestly if your design is in Allegro "Orcad" keep it there. EMA has links to design houses that use Allegro so some of them may be able to assist you. If your company is in the Allegro camp I don't think it would be a good move to have the design completed in a tool such as Pads, Altium etc. Your far better off keeping the design in it's native format - Allegro. On the cad packages you mentioned, Altium may be able to do it better than Pads, Mentor etc but I would verify in advance it can faithfully re-import the completed design back into allegro with good fidelity. Altium has a different layer structure than Allegro. A re-import more than likely will add additional layers to your original Allegro design, for example Mechanical layers etc or whatever additional layers were present in the Altium database.

    Depending on what You need I may well be able to assist, let me know.

    All the best. 

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  • Hi Lock

    Honestly if your design is in Allegro "Orcad" keep it there. EMA has links to design houses that use Allegro so some of them may be able to assist you. If your company is in the Allegro camp I don't think it would be a good move to have the design completed in a tool such as Pads, Altium etc. Your far better off keeping the design in it's native format - Allegro. On the cad packages you mentioned, Altium may be able to do it better than Pads, Mentor etc but I would verify in advance it can faithfully re-import the completed design back into allegro with good fidelity. Altium has a different layer structure than Allegro. A re-import more than likely will add additional layers to your original Allegro design, for example Mechanical layers etc or whatever additional layers were present in the Altium database.

    Depending on what You need I may well be able to assist, let me know.

    All the best. 

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