PowerPCB to Mentor Expedition

Steven_PCB

Thanks[em02]

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dzkcool

又没有EXP2005SP1输出的HKP文件转为Pads的工具呀？这个有点老了。

yqingcat

expendition to powerpcb?

jasonwzh

直接去Mentor的网站下一个Translater就可以了。不需要PADS输出，直接用PCB文件就可以了

jasonwzh

To translate a PADS Layout design to Expedition PCB using the "PADS Layout/Expedition Design and Library Translator"...

Installing the translator:

1. Download the latest translator, unzip to a new folder, and run Setup.exe.
2. On the Mentor Graphic Install dialog, select Install Product.
3. Once past the License Agreement, verify that the Select a source location path is the same folder to which the downloaded file was unzipped to.
4. On the Product Selection dialog, toggle on the Pads to Expedition Translator product and click Next.  Click Install.
5. When the installation is complete, optionally Verify Installation.
6. Exit the Mentor Graphics Install program.

Translating the Pads file:

1. Start>All Programs>Mentor Graphics SDD>Translators>ADS Layout to Expedition Design and Library Translator.
2. On the Translator startup dialog, select PADS Layout Designs and Libraries from the pulldown list and click OK.
3. On the Designs tab, specify a path to Place translated files in, preferably the future location of the new Expedition PCB layout.
4. Click the Add button to locate/specify the original PADS Layout design(s) to be translated.  Check Help to read about the available options on this dialog.
5. Click the Translate button.
6. Review the translation log and click Close. Close all the previous Translator dialogs.

Importing into a new Expedition PCB job:

1. Start>All Programs>Mentor Graphics SDD>{Design Capture DesignView or DxDesigner}-Expedition Flow>Layout>Expedition PCB.
2. In Expedition PCB, select File>New from the menus.
3. On the Job Management Wizard "Create" dialog, click the Browse button and point to the new "project" folder. Type in a name for the project, including the extension (i.e.  1234.prj), and click Open.
4. On the Job Management Wizard dialog, click the Edit Project button.  Click Yes at the "Create the file?" prompt.
5. On the Project Editor dialog, click the Browse button to locate/attach a Central Library (.lmc).  The library must contains Layout Templates ("seed" layouts for Expedition PCB).  Click OK.
6. On the Job Management Wizard dialog, click Next.
7. Edit the New PCB file name if necessary.
8. Select a PCB layout template from the pulldown list.  "4 layer template" and "8 layer template" are the basic delivered templates.
   Note: Layer stackup, Board Outline, Route Border, etc. and the local library will be overwritten when importing the translated Pads data.
9. Click Next.  Ignore the CDB warning message.  Click Finish.  Click Close.
10. In Expedition PCB, select File>Open and browse to and open the new Expedition .pcb file (in version EXP2005, the .pcb file is opened automatically).  Ignore the Back Annotation message as there is no schematic/C.DB.
11. File>Import>ASCII.
12. On the Import ASCII dialog, browse to the folder containing the previously translated *.hkp files.  Click OK.
13. After the import process is complete, use the File Viewer to view any log that the prompts suggest.
14. Setup>roject Integration.  At the top of the Project Integration dialog, click the Edit the Project File button.
15. On the Project Editor dialog Netlist tab, specify a Netlist Type Keyin Netlist.  Browse to Location of the original translated files and Open Netlist.kyn.  Click OK to save and exit.
16. On the Project Integration dialog, click the Forward Annotate button.  Check the log file.
17. Close the Project Integration dialog.
18. File>Save.

donaldren

let me look

allensony

THANKS

yeshelu

有个转换软件的

sault1979

需要，谢谢！