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 OrCAD® CIS Configuration file (
*.dbc) and OrCAD Library files (
*.llb,
*.olb).
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:
- Specifying the location of your database (Microsoft Access or Excel format) – this is not modified, but simply opened in read-only state to verify mappings between parameter names and tables/columns.
- Specifying the location of your CIS Configuration file and where the Altium Designer Database Library (*.DbLib) that it will be translated into, is to be stored.
- Specifying the OrCAD schematic (*.olb) and/or PCB (*.llb) libraries referenced by the database. These will translate to Altium Designer schematic (*.SchLib) and/or PCB (*.PcbLib) libraries respectively. You can nominate the directory in which these resulting library documents are to be saved.
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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.
