#EAGLE A PROTEL 99SE UPGRADE#
This could open a market for updating old designs for those that cannot afford the original software to upgrade their designs (ie old Protel designs need Altium to upgrade so a Protel import would open this for you, or Allegro is needed for OrCAD, etc.). Especially those that are not in use any more. Slowly building on the imports for older designs to allow these older designs to be imported to EASYPC for legacy work. Eagle can be imported already (I tried it and it works very well) so maybe Altium Schematic and PCB files could be added to start. I know that supporting such a wide range would be a huge investment, especially with the UK economy looking very bleak (with Brexit and the weakening pound), but could I suggest maybe one or two of these imports to start.
This is a product more in line with the capabilities of software such as PADS and Altium, and does have a long list of import formats including many which you include in your original post. Having said that, I would suggest that you have a look at Easy-PC's "sister" product called Pulsonix. This has knock-on implications in terms of things like spacing and thermal rules to be applied when generating manufacturing outputs. Apart from the business implications of the level of investment that would be required, there is also the issue that many of those formats that you list have data capabilities beyond the ability of Easy-PC to hold in it's design data format. I am sure you can imagine that supporting such a wide range of import formats comes at quite a cost in terms of development and maintenance of the code. The customer would have to accept that my updated designs would be in EasyPC format only or ODB++ and Gerber output.
I could import and edit in EasyPC and supply the gerbers for almost any design given to me. I get requests for updating various designs and if it was possible to import many designs into EasyPC. It is possible for EasyPC to have similar import capabilities (export need not be an option). PADS Logic ASCII Part Type Libraries (*.p) PADS Logic ASCII CAE Decal Libraries (*.c) P-CAD V16 or V17 ASCII Library files (*.lia) P-CAD V16 or V17 Binary Library files (*.lib) P-CAD V15, V16, or V17 ASCII PCB design files (*.pcb) P-CAD V15, V16, or V17 Binary PCB design files (*.pcb) P-CAD V16 or V17 ASCII Schematic design files (*.sch) P-CAD V16 or V17 Binary Schematic design files (*.sch) The method of import may differ between different file types, and are detailed in the sections thereafter.Īll previous Protel/Altium Schematic files/librariesĪll previous Protel/Altium PCB files/libraries The following provides an overview of what file types can be imported into Altium Designer. I have seen that Altium can import from many different designs.
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