Change Eagle Project To Altium Designer (PCB)

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Greetings.

Is there any way to open a Eagle 5.6 proyect in Altium Designer?

Thanks

Fabián

:frowning:

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Fabián,

There is no way to go from one to the other that I know of. I recently made the switch from Eagle to Altium as well; I haven’t bothered trying to port any libraries or designs automatically.

–David Carne

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I found this in another forum.

http://www.edaboard.com/ftopic264293.html

But the I don’t understand how to do it.

Thanks :?:

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That appears to only cover moving the layout through, with no net annotations / etc.

I’d just start from scratch; Altium is so quick to lay stuff out in that you could probably re-layout whatever design you want to move in the time you’d spend trying to get the conversion going.

–David Carne

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  1. For schematics, download this file: ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/eagle/userfiles/ul … ad_sch.ulp

For PCB, download this file: ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/eagle/userfiles/ul … telpcb.ulp

  1. Copy them into the directory called “ulp” that you can find in the eagle’s installation directory located in Program Files. Example, for me it was: C:\Program Files (x86)\EAGLE-5.11.0\ulp

  2. Open your shematics/board in Eagle and then go to “File”->“Run…”

Look for “eagle2ad_sch.ulp” if you want to export schematics and clik “Open”, give the name you want and click “Save”, Eagle will confirm that the file was exported correctly.

Do the same with the board/PCB, using “export-protelpcb.ulp”.

  1. Open it in Altium Designer and you should be able to see the schematics/PCB correctly exported.

I tried with a Arduino design and it worked well, the components are even linked between schematics and PCB :smiley:

For schematics, some elements/parts were out of the working sheet and not selectable, I did a “CTRL+A” and refitted them into the sheet, hope this simple tip could help.

Have a great day!