Viewing schematics from Altium Designer

Another great print to pdf converter is PdfCreator. It's free. I use it

in preference to the distiller. I use it with Eagle all the time.

Regards,

George

On 03/04/09 10:55 AM, Oppie wrote:

 

"EAGLE user" <e4opening@yahoo.com> wrote in message

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Yaroze wrote:

A client has given me some Schematics which are in Altium Designer

format.

I don't need to be able to edit the files, just to view them would be

OK.

 

Does anyone know how I can convert the Altium Designer files to PDF

or Eagle SCH format? Even JPG or BMP would od for me just now!

 

I downloaded the Altium Designer Viewer but you have to wait for a

contact from their sales team to try to up sell you before they'll

give you a viewer license. So far they haven't made any attempt to

contact me, so I don't yet have a viewer.

 

Regards,

KM.

KM,

 

You might want to contact your client. They should be able to save out

the Altium files in PDF format for you. Also, if memory serves me

correctly they can save out the board outline in a DXF format which

EAGLE can import using one of the ULP programs. This may save you the

hassle with dealing with Altium.

 

Eagle User

 

I used to run an earlier version of Protel (altium). It had very limited

exports. I finally got Acrobat Distiller (then later CutePDF which is

better and free) and would just plot to the PDF printer. I recall having

problems with distiller in that it would make a pdf for each schematic

sheet. CutePDF made all sheets into one PDF.

 

The DXF option is really neat if the altium platform supports that

export. I never tried that with a schematic.

Another great print to pdf converter is PdfCreator. It's free. I use it

in preference to the distiller. I use it with Eagle all the time.

Regards,

George

On 03/04/09 10:55 AM, Oppie wrote:

 

"EAGLE user" <e4opening@yahoo.com> wrote in message

news:gob8en$nd8$1@cheetah.cadsoft.de...

Yaroze wrote:

A client has given me some Schematics which are in Altium Designer

format.

I don't need to be able to edit the files, just to view them would be

OK.

 

Does anyone know how I can convert the Altium Designer files to PDF

or Eagle SCH format? Even JPG or BMP would od for me just now!

 

I downloaded the Altium Designer Viewer but you have to wait for a

contact from their sales team to try to up sell you before they'll

give you a viewer license. So far they haven't made any attempt to

contact me, so I don't yet have a viewer.

 

Regards,

KM.

KM,

 

You might want to contact your client. They should be able to save out

the Altium files in PDF format for you. Also, if memory serves me

correctly they can save out the board outline in a DXF format which

EAGLE can import using one of the ULP programs. This may save you the

hassle with dealing with Altium.

 

Eagle User

 

I used to run an earlier version of Protel (altium). It had very limited

exports. I finally got Acrobat Distiller (then later CutePDF which is

better and free) and would just plot to the PDF printer. I recall having

problems with distiller in that it would make a pdf for each schematic

sheet. CutePDF made all sheets into one PDF.

 

The DXF option is really neat if the altium platform supports that

export. I never tried that with a schematic.