Eagle 2 Mentor Graphics PCB

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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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.

--

James Morrison  ~~~  Stratford Digital

email:  sales2009@eaglecentral.ca

fax:    888.701.8097

web:    http://www.eaglecentral.ca

Online EAGLE Dealer for US and Canada

EAGLE Design Experts

EAGLE Enterprise Toolkit

--

Browser access to CadSoft Support Forums at http://www.eaglecentral.ca