Altium Designer
- Extract Altium Designer ASCII file, *.PcbDoc, in Altium Designer.
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From the menu bar, click .
The Import from Altium Designer dialog opens.
- Layer Set-Up: Set Altium layers’ name which will be used as PDB’s component outline layer, board outline layer and Drill Layer.
- Convert COC line width as 0: Apply the line width of COC to zero.
- Define ECAD Part Name: You can set the ECAD Part name as a Design Item
Value or Parameters value.
- Design Item ID: Set the Part Name with the Design Item ID or Footprint Name in Altium Designer design data.
- Parameters Name: Set the ECAD Part Name with the parameter of Altium Designer design data you specified.
- Apply to Environment Setting: Apply settings to the environment setting.
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Select the target ASCII file, *.PcbDoc, to import.
The format to import Altium Designer is shown in the image below.
Figure 1. Example of *.PcbDoc 
Important: The extension of Altium Protel 99 SE is the same with *.pcb, but the format is the same as Altium Designer. You must import ASCII file using Altium Designer menu.Note: In Altium Designer, you can save a file either binary or ASCII format with the same extension (*.PcbDoc). You should import the ASCII format data into PollEx.