文档介绍：Moving to Altium Designer from Cadence
Allegro PCB Editor®
Summary This application note highlights the key concepts you need to be aware of when
moving from Cadence Allegro PCB® to Altium Designer. It identifies Altium
Designer’s functionality and how to get started – helping you ramp up your
Application Note productivity and quickly take advantage of this powerful and flexible electronic
AP0165 () September 8, 2008 product development environment.
You’ve made the switch to Altium Designer – a single, unified application that incorporates all the technologies and capabilities
necessary plete electronic product development – and now you’re keen to get on with the design process. This
application note gives you a jump start on the basics of designing in Altium Designer. It also shows how easy it is to transfer
your Allegro PCB designs into Altium Designer.
Getting Started – Converting Your Allegro PCB Designs
The translation of Allegro Design files can be handled by Altium Designer’s Import Wizard. Complete flexibility is found in all
pages of the wizard, giving you as little or as much control as you would like over the translation settings mitting to
the actual translation process.
The Import Wizard handles both Allegro PCB Design files (*.brd) and Allegro ASCII Extract files (*.alg). If you have Allegro
PCB Editor versions or 16 installed, you can directly translate Allegro PCB Design files (*.brd) into Altium Designer PCB
files (*.PcbDoc).
The file and
Allegro ASCII Extract files (*.alg) are created using the Allegro PCB Editor, plus the
the file
and files included in your Altium Designer are located in the \System
installation. Once these ASCII Extract files have been created, you can translate them into Altium folder of Altium Designer
Designer PCB files (*.PcbDoc) on machines that do not have Cadence Allegro P