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 Zuken CADSTAR® design and library files (
*.csa,
*.cpa,
*.lib).
Import is performed using the
Import Wizard (
File»Import Wizard). The
Import Wizard will guide you through the steps involved when importing these types of files, including:
- Which schematic and/or PCB design files to include for processing.
- Which schematic symbol (and part) and/or pcb libraries to include in the process.
- Layer-mapping for PCB design files and/or PCB libraries included in the import process.
Note that Altium Designer's CADSTAR Importer does not support import of binary design files or libraries. You will need to first convert such files to their archive file format. Schematic design (
*.scm) and Schematic Symbol library (
*.lib) files must be exported in CADSTAR Schematic archive format (
*.csa). PCB design (
*.pcb) and PCB Library (
*.lib) files must be exported in CADSTAR PCB archive format (
*.cpa). The exception to this is the Part library file (
*.lib), which is already in ASCII format.
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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.
