Hi Manu,

The ascii files are the ones that will be easiest to import. But 9 is
the latest version I think, and there were lots of changes. I am not
sure since I don't use anything that new. But even using files between
versions of PADS it's pretty much always been required to use the ascii
files.

One final confusion is that sometimes the .asc suffix has been used for
forward-back annotation etc. So it may not even be a schematic, just a
partial netlist.

Your best hope is to find someone with PADS 9, open the binary (pcb,
sch) files, and then export them. There is a guy I hire once in a while
who could do it but he has a half day minimum.

Friendly regards,

Bob

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013, at 12:17 PM, Manu Abraham wrote:
> Hi,
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> I am looking at some files with .pcb and .sch extension files,
> which I can't seem to open with Altium, Orcad or Eagle.
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> One of the files in there, a .err file contains this at the top of the
> text file
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> *PADS-ECO-V9.4-METRIC*
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> *REMARK* -- Mictor_Breakout.pcb -- Tue Sep 25 14:30:23 2012
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> So, I guess these .pcb and .sch files were done with PADS.
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> Eventually, I tried with Altium to import these files, but it was
> unable to complete the operation, since it was looking for .asc files
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> I have to .asc files also in there. Opening it in a text editor, it says
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> !PADS-POWERPCB-V9.0-MILS! NETLIST FILE FROM PADS LOGIC V9.4
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> So, It states more or less that it has been worked on with a PADS
> Cad application, but trying to import the .asc files with Altium doesn't
> help either.
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> I don't have PADS at my end. I am wondering whether I can import it
> some way into Eagle or Orcad or Altium ?
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> Any ideas ?
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> Thanks,
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> Manu

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