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Pad's Translator 17.4, Not valid allegro subcts

MPollock

Hello Forum,

I am trying to translate a old Pad's project to Allegro 17.4, looks like it is creating the netlist fine, but it stops with an error in the pads_in.log there is a message at the end,

ERROR: Subclass name SOLDERMASK_TOP not valid Allegro subcls for class ROUTE KEEPOUT. Quitting.
ERROR: Failed while writing the Allegro database.
Information: Object is empty, so CSet 1_16_17 renamed to DEFAULT

Warning: Default electrical CSets are not supported in Allegro PCB Editor.
Manually assign the ¡®DEFAULT¡¯ electrical cset to the objects.

Looking at the project.asc in Notepad++ but can't see what the issue is, any idea's would be greatly appreciated ! 

Thanks Much,

Mike Pollock.

  • I use PADS vx2.5 and Allegro 16.6, 17.2, and 17.4 because I go back and forth a lot.   

    What is in your options file for the PADS translation import (text editor)?

    Do you have entries for SOLDERMASK_TOP or ROUTE_KEEPOUT that you can delete?

    Have to figure out where Route Keepout comes from.

    This is a report of a successful xlation into Allegro 16.6 (17.2 and onward won't xlate back to MGC until they update the translator to use current Allegro padstacks.)

    PADS layer usage summary:
  Layers 1 to 4 are route layers.
  LINES:
     1           ETCH - TOP
     4           ETCH - BOTTOM
    21 BOARD GEOMETRY - SOLDERMASK_TOP
    24  * Not mapped!
    26 BOARD GEOMETRY - SILKSCREEN_TOP
    28 BOARD GEOMETRY - SOLDERMASK_BOTTOM
  COPPER:
     1           ETCH - TOP
     2           ETCH - INT2
     3           ETCH - INT3
     4           ETCH - BOTTOM
  TEXT:
     1           ETCH - TOP
     2           ETCH - INT2
     3           ETCH - INT3
     4           ETCH - BOTTOM
    19  * Not mapped!
    21 BOARD GEOMETRY - SOLDERMASK_TOP
    22  * Not mapped!
    23  * Not mapped!
    24  * Not mapped!
    26 BOARD GEOMETRY - SILKSCREEN_TOP
    28 BOARD GEOMETRY - SOLDERMASK_BOTTOM
    29 BOARD GEOMETRY - SILKSCREEN_BOTTOM
  DECALS:
     0 PACKAGE GEOMETRY - SILKSCREEN_TOP
     1 PACKAGE GEOMETRY - SILKSCREEN_TOP
    14  * Not mapped!
    15  * Not mapped!
    20  * Not mapped!
    21 PACKAGE GEOMETRY - SOLDERMASK_TOP
    23 PACKAGE GEOMETRY - PASTEMASK_TOP
    25  * Not mapped!
    26 PACKAGE GEOMETRY - SILKSCREEN_TOP
    27 PACKAGE GEOMETRY - ASSEMBLY_TOP
  PADS:
     0           ETCH - internal_pad_def
     1           ETCH - TOP
     2           ETCH - INT2
     3           ETCH - INT3
     4           ETCH - BOTTOM
    21            PIN - SOLDERMASK_TOP
    23            PIN - PASTEMASK_TOP
    28            PIN - SOLDERMASK_BOTTOM
  VIAS:
     0      VIA CLASS - internal_pad_def
     1      VIA CLASS - TOP
     2      VIA CLASS - INT2
     3      VIA CLASS - INT3
     4      VIA CLASS - BOTTOM

 WARNING: 3237 data objects mapped to the UNUSED class were ignored.
  • in reply to RFinley

    Hello RFinley,  Right now I'm using the default pads_in.ini file, first time trying to do this, very complex PCB and was done with a 2007 version of Pads.  I can see the entry's for SODERMASK_TOP, not sure what is the problem tried to change the name from underscore to dash with no luck.  Thanks,   Mike P.

  • in reply to MPollock

    send me an email rfinley91729 at gmail.com if you want me to try up-reving the ascii file.   

    The Allegro xlator definitely falls over past PADS 9.5.  Have to downrev.  

  • in reply to RFinley

    Hey thanks much for the offer, but really good to know, we were thinking it might have had something to do with the age of pads.  This is part of a microwave Ablation system, we are looking at contracting this out, but this company is very concerned about confidentially, requires signing NDA forms. 

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