4 Replies Latest reply on Mar 6, 2012 6:51 PM by Daniel Nesthus

Altium to SW 2012

Mark Sawchuk Jan 26, 2012 6:59 PM

What does one use to transfer pcb files back and forth between SW and your PCB design software? (we use Altium for PCB design software) Right now we are using step format but importing into SW creates many separate part files of everything in the PCB (aal components), this can cause much confusion sometimes. Is there an easier translation method between two programs or perhaps even better settings for my import of a step file? Very new at this and would like to start in the right direction.

Thanks.

Mark S

SW 2012 SP1

Win 7 64 bit

Re: Altium to SW 2012

Kevin De Smet Jan 27, 2012 11:56 AM (in response to Mark Sawchuk)

I'm not sure if it will give you a specific answer to your particular question, but you might like to check out this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIkx86l5s_M
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Re: Altium to SW 2012

Jerry Steiger Jan 29, 2012 5:33 PM (in response to Mark Sawchuk)

Mark,

We use an add-in from Desktop EDA, SolidWorks Modeler for Altium
http://www.desktop-eda.com.au/products/protel-solidworks.htm
It works well for us. We've used it for over 10 years and have never felt the need to look for something better, so there could be a whole slew of newer, faster, better, cheaper products out there.

Jerry Steiger
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Re: Altium to SW 2012

Chad Schmidt Jan 29, 2012 7:56 PM (in response to Mark Sawchuk)

The output from Altium is useless. It's been like this for a long time now. I've tried explaining this to Atlium on several occasions but they just don't get it.

https://forum.solidworks.com/message/132406#132406
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Re: Altium to SW 2012

Daniel Nesthus Mar 6, 2012 6:51 PM (in response to Mark Sawchuk)

I will second Jerry Steiger's post. We also use the Desktop EDA package, but since Altium has not released the SDK for AD10 Brian at Desktop EDA has not been able to support AD10.

Hello Altium (if you're reading) - Please release the SDK for AD10 (and the next version as well) since the STEP import/export system you have implemented does not work well enough for tight ECAD/MCAD integration.
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