Back to Convert Protel to TARGET 3001!
Open Board Viewer (Linux) If you do not have access to any of the above applications, the easiest way to view the circuit board design contained within a BRD file is to upload it to Altium 365 Viewer, a free, online CAD file viewer (web). Converting a schematic to PCB can be done using the Convert to PCB., but if you do modifications to the schematic, by using the Update PCB button you can immediately be passed forward to update the selected PCB without having the PCB editor window already open or without creating a new PCB file. Or you can use “Top Menu - Design - Import. First of all, you will need to open your PCB design file in Eagle. This file will have a.brd extension. After that, following the following instructions: 1.Select “File - CAM Processor”. PCB file openers, viewers, etc. These apps are known to open certain types of PCB files. Remember, different programs may use PCB files for different purposes, so you may need to try out a few of them to be able to open your specific file. Converting a schematic to PCB can be done using the Convert to PCB., but if you do modifications to the schematic, by using the Update PCB button you can immediately be passed forward to update the selected PCB without having the PCB editor window already open or without creating a new PCB file. Or you can use “Top Menu - Design - Import.
Using the Protel 98/99/SE export we always got in the first line one of the following options:
PCB FILE 6 VERSION 2.80
PCB FILE 6 VERSION 2.60
PCB FILE 6 VERSION 2.40
How To Open .pcb File In Orcad
Read Pcb Files
Please check which PROTEL version you currently are using and also check it's export opportunities. Using the demo version of Altium Designer (Protel DXP) you can read in *.PCB files and later export them as 'PCB FILE 6 VERSION 2.80'. The Protel converter in TARGET 3001! can convert those files.
This is a screenshot of the Protel 'Save As'-dialog (using a German Windows):
The conversion process is described as follows:
Highlight in Protel Design Explorer the file you wish to convert. In this example the file: 'Z80 Processor Board.pcb'.
In menu 'File' choose 'Export'...||
In the following dialog choose 'File Type' (extension) 'Protel PCB 2.8 ASCII File (*.PCB)' and enter an appropriate name for the ASCII file, wich is now created. In our example we just added the letters TXT for the extension after conversion still is *.PCB.
After 'Save' is pressed please find the converted file in the defined directory.
Please open TARGET and select in menu 'File' 'Input-/Output Formats' and there 'ASCII - Interface'
This is the dialog of the ASCII interface. Open the 'Source', the ASCII-file we just generated. Click on button 'Open'.
In the opening dialog select it but choose 'File Type': 'ProtelPCBText *.PCB'.
...sorry for not showing english Windows (R) dialogs.In the converter now click button 'Convert'.
Where do you want to save it? In our example we save it to the same directory. Now it is a TARGET -file (*.T3001).
...sorry for not showing english Windows (R) dialogs.The converter shows you succeeded in converting!
If you now wish to open the project in TARGET 3001! ...
...just do it.
...sorry for not showing english Windows (R) dialogs.This is how the project looks in TARGET. Because we just converted a schematic file, no layout can be there. <p>Please make a project Reorganisation. See TARGET menu 'Actions / Reorganisation' <p>Currently free text elements unfortunately get lost. The data integration between schematic and PCB layout can be realized in TARGET 3001! menu 'Input-/Output Formats/Concatenate a schematic and a pcb'...