Eagle 2 Mentor Graphics PCB

peter wrote on Fri, 06 February 2009 11:41

Hello

 

I have made a schematic in Eagle. Now I want to give that schematic to a

person who will make the board. The problem is he is using Mentor

Graphics

PCB. Any idea on how to convert?

 

Peter

Hi Peter,

I sure do.  Mentor PCB products will read in a PADS netlist, since Mentor

now owns PADS.

So you just need use our tool, EET: PADS Inteface, which will output a

PADS netlist or ECO file for this very purpose.  It will also import a PADS

netlist into the EAGLE PCB editor, but you won't need that.

It is very reasonably priced ($100) and comes with support.  In other

words, if you have an issue with it then we will help you through it.

More info here

http://www.eaglecentral.ca/forums/index.php?t=threadt&frm_id=15&S=90b575271a6ffc93371b0b843d5bd9df

You can purchase it here

http://www.eaglecentral.ca/purchase/eet_pads.php?product=1&d=1

Cheers,

James.

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You could send them the netlist and the footprints for the devices you

are using. That's all that's needed to make the board.  It will probably

be far easier to just send him the schematic and redraw it in Mentor.

On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 17:41:05 +0100, "Peter"

<peter.jansson@broccoli.se> wrote:

Hello

 

I have made a schematic in Eagle. Now I want to give that schematic to a

person who will make the board. The problem is he is using Mentor Graphics

PCB. Any idea on how to convert?

 

Peter

 

I'm curious, why not design the board yourself?

-Dave Pollum

Gary Gofstein wrote on Fri, 06 February 2009 14:33

You could send them the netlist and the footprints for the devices you

are using. That's all that's needed to make the board.  It will probably

be far easier to just send him the schematic and redraw it in Mentor.

Yes, you need a netlist and parts list.  But what format?  That is the

question.  Anyone who is doing this professionally doesn't want to spend

hours trying to get EAGLE to give the right format or the layout tool to

read some aribtrary format.

The PADS format is well documented and used by almost all CAD packages for

this sort of design flow.  In fact, I know companies that have the entire

Mentor toolset and still use PADS netlist to go from schematic to layout.

There are better ways, but this one is proven if you are careful.  If you

are not, it is fraught with peril.

Cheers,

James.

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Dave Pollum wrote on Fri, 06 February 2009 17:50

On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 17:41:05 +0100, "Peter"

<peter.jansson@broccoli.se> wrote:

 

>Hello

>I have made a schematic in Eagle. Now I want to give that schematic to

a

>person who will make the board. The problem is he is using Mentor

Graphics

>PCB. Any idea on how to convert?

 

I'm curious, why not design the board yourself?

-Dave Pollum

Hi Dave,

I don't know why Peter is doing this specifically, but there are lots of

companies that outsource layout.  They figure the system and circuit design

are their core competency and thus create the schematic.  But they consider

the PCB layout to be a commodity service that lots of people can do.

I'm not saying I agree with this or that there might not be a better

solution.  But some companies do think this.  That was the point of

providing our PADS tool:  you can use EAGLE as a schematic capture package

and then use a standard 3rd party interface for the layout.  And you can

now license just the schematic capture module if you want which

(apparently) wasn't possible before.

Other times it is done because the designer just doesn't have enough

bandwidth and it is easier to document this step of the process than

embedded firmware, programmable logic, software, .....

I'm sure there are others, but those are the two I see most often.

Cheers,

James.

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Seems like me and the PCB layout designer have a solution on this. He had

scripts/ulp files that generates the netlist and a part list. The problem

with the part list is that I will have to manually choose the component in

both Eagle and Mentor Graphics. So there is a correlation between the names

Eagle use and the ones Mentor Graphics use.

The answer why I am not doing the PCB layout myself is simply that the final

device is needed to be small and fullfill some special requirements. Since

the PCB designer that will do this for me has been doing this all his life

and I am new, I simply knows he will do a better job and the final product

will look better.

Thanks for your replies

Peter

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Hello

 

I have made a schematic in Eagle. Now I want to give that schematic to a

person who will make the board. The problem is he is using Mentor Graphics

PCB. Any idea on how to convert?

 

Peter