Not all design work is done in Altium Designer. If you are new to Altium Designer, you will undoubtedly have designs in some other file format – either from an older Altium design solution, or some other EDA vendor tool. Even if you are an existing user of Altium Designer day-in, day-out, there may be times where you are presented with a design created outside of Altium Designer. Supporting your need to work with design files in other formats and from other tools, install this plugin to import an Allegro® design file (
*.brd,
*.alg).
Import is performed using the
Import Wizard (
File»Import Wizard). The
Import Wizard will guide you through the steps involved when importing this type of file, including:
- Plane connection options.
- Polygon connection options.
- Copper pour cutouts.
- Layer mapping.
Note that the Allegro importer requires the board to be in the Allegro ASCII file format (
*.alg). If you select a binary format file (
*.brd), Altium Designer will attempt to locate and run Allegro to save the file in the ASCII format. For this to work Allegro must be installed on your PC.
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Important!
This plugin is only available for Altium Designer 13.0 or older versions.
Altium Designer 14.0+ Users: You can install this plugin in the Extensions & Updates section in Altium Designer.
