Allegro dxf layer conversion file

The plot file can then be imported into Allegro. This is a simple but effective way to load in board outlines, component placements or other layout related information without manually drawing it. If not specified defaults to IN. Default value is 9 degrees but you can specify rande from 2 degrees to 15 degrees. No such equivalent exists in ipf so the translator simply explodes the block. This is a low cost and simple way to exchange data between Allegro and mechanical drawing packages.

Together with its companion program, LayoutGen, intelligence is added into the AutoCAD layout data and then brought into APD fully intelligently: symbols, pins, padstacks, shapes, classes, and nets.

Artwork handles support for all AIF related issues and maintains the database. It automates the labeling, checks the wires, labels unused die pads and fingers and generates a customized title border. It enables Virtuoso users to import mechanical data from AutoCAD - for example package layouts and wire bonds.

Uky Member level 5. What you need is to have some drawing editor that can access the. For instance: The board outline should ideally be a closed polyline. You also need to know the name of the layers and what they should represent in the imported design. DXF preparation. I have seldom received a. DXF file which contains exactly what I need and nothing more. Instead the file is flooded with layers that has no meaning for the layout engineer.

The content of unused layers should be deleted and the layers should be purged before an import is attempted. If you have no access to a. DXF editor, then cross your fingers and hope that the layers in the. DXF are prepared. Layer 0 zero is always present. Other layers can have arbitrary names and these will appear in the import menu. As the import procedure is initiated, you will be given options how to map the layers present in the.

If the layers are clearly named, just map them to the layers present in the Allegro editor. Texts can also be mapped to documentation layer, as these texts may not appear correctly in silkscreen etc. They need to be defined in the drill and route file. One solution is to locate all mechanical drill holes, add them in the schematic to a layout symbol footprint , connect the hole to GND if it has to be tied to a net and then do a forward annotation.

Then place the holes right where the holes appear in the documentation layer in the. BRD-file assuming that you just imported a. DXF-file into it. You should select "Incremental" import, as otherwise Allegro layer structure will be overwritten.