Cadence Allegro Expansion
PollEx PCB supports Cadence Allegro Expansion files such as binary and ASCII files.
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From the menu bar, click File > Import ECAD > Cadence Allegro Expansion.
The Import from Cadence Allegro dialog opens.
- Allegro Binary File: Select the target binary file
*.brd or *.mcm to import.
To import binary files, you need to set the Binary Reading Option in the
User Defined Setting dialog.
- Panel: To import as a panel data, select a *.geom file of the panel data.
- Allegro ASCII Files: Select the target ASCII file
*Geom.txt to import.
- Panel: To import as a panel data, select a *.geom file of the panel data.
- Allegro Fabmaster File: Select the target fabmaster file *.txt or *.cad to import.
- User Defined Setting: Specify parameters for data importing options.
- Allegro Binary File: Select the target binary file
*.brd or *.mcm to import.
To import binary files, you need to set the Binary Reading Option in the
User Defined Setting dialog.
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The User Defined Setting for Cadence Allegro dialog
opens.
- Import Type
- Read from Binary File: Support default as Allegro binary file reading.
- Read from ASCII File: Support default as Allegro ASCII file reading.
- Read form Fabmaster File: Support default as Allegro Fabmaster file reading.
- Binary Reading Option: Import with an Allegro binary file
(*.brd).Note: The Binary Reading Option only works on a machine which Cadence Allegro installed. Otherwise, this feature will not work.
- Path to the extra.exe: If you want to use the way of reading binary file, set executable command file, extracta.exe path. Example: %ALLEGRO_INSTALL_DIR%\tools\pcb\bin
- Path to the Control File: To use Allegro ASCII extraction command, extracta.exe, you need to use control file for extract ASCII file. Set the path for control file. In general case, this file is in C:\ProgramData\altair\PollEx\<Version>\Share\AllegroExpansion_ExtractCommandFile163
- Options
- Allow Break Component: Check when user wants to import Break Component.
- Higher than Version 16.3: Check this option while reading upper Allegro version than 16.3.
- Add suffix “Manufacturing” for the manufacturing related layers.
- Define Part Name: Set the ECAD Part name with a Property or Parameters value.
- Layer Set-Up: Set Allegro layers’ name which will be used as PDB’s component related layers for silkscreen, component outline layer.
- Apply to Environment Setting: Apply settings to the environment setting.
- Import Type