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Any way to open .BD1 files?

JasonAtDakota
JasonAtDakota over 6 years ago

Does anyone have a good way of importing .BD1 files into modern PCB software?  A contractor created boards with an ancient copy of DOS based OrCAD and I am having no luck importing them.  Tried and failed with 17.2 PCB Editor and 15.7 free viewer.  

Datamining the file yields: VERSION=v203 OrCAD PCB 32bit Board

So far I have not found anything old enough to translate that is still available to download.  

Thanks

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