Documentation Editor

This is an interview question for me.  "What do you use to generate your assembly documentation?" 

Assembly documentation from Allegro rarely has all details that satisfies everyone and it has to be kept in sync with the design.  Then these idiots come out of the woodwork with Martha-Stewart look-and-feel changes.  Another thing that causes grey hairs:  AutoCAD. 

So, I have Downstream Blueprint-1200(same product).   Almost eliminates DXFs from my work flow.  Lost that "high school science fair project" look from my assembly documentation.  Our assembly shop is delighted and I no longer have to hear the words "component locator tables".  

We are a P5DS/Allegro shop.  Purchased the Allegro ODB import option and it imports both.  Gerber and 2581 are available.

Tracks artwork and design changes like a dream so I can focus on the actual design changes. 

Easy as learning Visio, your manufacturing engineers can do their own detailed assembly documentation updates.  Resolve their "never built the same way twice" problems without interrupting my current project.  Has detail features that take minutes to implement in drawings that "self-heal" as the design changes (magnified section views)

It's your best option for abandoning the other documentation band-aid:  the PDF.   The native file viewer allows you to switch to a view of the underlying artwork and probe routing by net.

On top of that, there is the Step import and view option, the scrollable BOM on a 3dPDF option, or the API if you're into scripting automation.   And, I've gotten tech support answers late (7PM) in California.

Downstream Blueprint is a good YouTube search term.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lay9rjoCD3Y