The Allegro installation can be on any machine, and is only used to generate suitable ASCII PCB design files. Since Allegro binary-to-ASCII conversion is a self-contained file process, the Allegro installation does not need to be accessed by Altium Designer. The ASCII PCB design files are extracted from native Allegro PCB files (.brd) by Allegro’s included file converter (extracta.exe), which is called by a special batch file supplied with Altium Designer. alg) that have been created from a licensed Allegro PCB installation. The Wizard uses Allegro’s included file conversion capabilities to configure the design data for processing by the importer.Īltium Designer’s Import Wizard can import and translate ASCII-based Allegro PCB files (. brd) to Altium Designer PCB files (.PcbDoc) when the Wizard has local access to an Allegro PCB editor installation – that is, when a licensed copy of Allegro PCB is installed on the same machine as Altium Designer. The Import Wizard can directly import and translate Allegro PCB files (. According to what I read, there are two methods from this Altium post:

We also are interested in the Altium file export for the BBAI Rev A2, if you can do that export. When the KiCAD version is available, you might find it easier to import that into Altium: If I knew, I’d be happy to export it.įor conversion to KiCAD, I created a cds2f text file:

If we get to work and finish the design, we will most likely share it with you(not sure, if this is useful for the community). We are planning to replace the expansion connectors with pc/104 connector. Would it be possible to update the files and also upload the ascii file, so that we can import this into altium. I am getting an error when tried to view the files using the free allegro pcb viewer. I was able to import the schematic into Altium, but not the pcb design files. I have come across the amazing work you guys are doing and was looking into possibly modifying one of your designs to replace an obsolete ioc we are using (it’s a kontron pc/104 no longer in production). My name is Rama Bachimanchi and I am an electrical engineer working at Jefferson Lab (non-profit research organization).

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