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Export PCB for easy viewing

isii

Hello,

For Altium projects, I've been exporting all projects to PCAD format so that I can check al PCB layouts very easily using PCAD viewer. It's a a very simple and effective viewer for checking anytime the PCB layout. You can select/highlight nets, components, to make measurements, etc.without starting the "big" software Altium.

Having said that, is there any similar viewer for Orcad projects (for *.brd files)? Or can it be exported to any other format so that I can use any viewer?

 Thanks.

  • redwire

     You are aware that Cadence has a free viewer that allows users to review boards?  http://www.cadence.com/products/pcb/Pages/downloads.aspx

    Altium can read the boards (via conversion).  Other means exist but not sure if they make sense....

  • steve

     The tools will run in "demo" or lite mode without a license and work exactly the same (except you can't save or output data). If you have a licensed version then you may need to adjust the CDS_LIC_FILE so that it is not set then when you start Capture it runs in demo mode. For PCB Edtior make sure you start allegro with a -orcad (start -> run ->allegro -orcad) and without a license it will run in demo mode.

  • redwire

    steve said:
    For PCB Edtior make sure you start allegro with a -orcad (start -> run ->allegro -orcad) and without a license it will run in demo mode.

     

    Cool, thanks!!  Did not know that little gem.

     

  • isii

     Ok, thanks!

    It's what I was looking for, a "simple" viewer of *.brd files. So now I'll be sure of not modifying the original files when checking the design.

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