Hi Bill,
The suggestion to import using PCAD is a good one - IF you have the
original schematic libraries. If you are recovering the same kind of
dinosaur that I've tried to recover, you probably lost the library files
long ago.
I recently wanted to recover a schematic from 14 years ago - I have no idea
what library files were used for that old file, so what I got using a PCAD
2004 import was a nice schematic of traces and ports. The old DOS computer
that created that file was stolen during an office breakin 10 years ago,
the backups were on Norton Backup version 1.x, etc. Like you said - easier
just to redraw.
If you need a printout or PDF of your schematic, I can help. I do have
Tango II running on a back room machine networked just for the purpose of
recovery and display of old stuff.
Regards - Harry
At 12:04 PM 9/23/05, you wrote:
Thanks Harry,
I get it.
I just wasn't complete in expressing my thought...
I meant 'try importing the PCB file', as I did read that the schematic file
does not directly convert.
I just grabbed the .s01 file and opened it with notepad to show what version
of the program it was created with... Now I realize that there really isn't
a correlation between the PCB program and the Schematic program like in the
newer Protel versions because the two programs evolved separately. So
establishing the version that way was pointless.
It may be quicker to just 'bite the bullet' and redo the schematic in
Protel. I realize the netlist will probably import into Protel PCB without
any trouble... the netlist formats look identical.
Thanks,
Bill Brooks - KG6VVP
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-----Original Message-----
From: Harry Selfridge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 9:52 AM
To: Protel EDA Discussion List
Subject: RE: [PEDA] Conversion from TANGO SCHEMATIC to PROTEL???
Bill,
I think you misunderstood what everyone has been saying. You can't import
the Tango schematic with any Protel tool. You can import the PCB with
Protel 2.8, then save it in ASCII format and import it into any of the
newer Protel versions. You can directly import the Tango netlist into any
newer Protel version without pre-processing.
Been there... tried all of that.
Regards - Harry
At 08:56 AM 9/23/05, you wrote:
>The first few lines in the schematic ASCII file read
>
>;Tango-Schematic 1.50 Series II
>TANGO_SCHEMATIC 1 1 A
>SHEET 0 0 17000 11000 2
>SIZE 344 317 14959 9433 344 317
>JUNC 7875 5225
>JUNC 7975 3225
>JUNC 4675 4475
>JUNC 3400 4000
>
>
>I have not tried PCAD because I don't have a copy of PCAD here to
experiment
>with... I do have Protel 2.8 though and we might try importing with that...
>
>
>Bill Brooks - KG6VVP
>PCB Design Engineer, C.I.D.+, C.I.I.
>Tel: (760)597-1500 Ext 3772 Fax: (760)597-1510
>Datron World Communications, Inc.
>_______________________________________
>San Diego Chapter of the IPC Designers Council
>Communications Officer, Web Manager
>http://dcchapters.ipc.org/SanDiego/
>http://pcbwizards.com
>-----Original Message-----
>From: PCB Designs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 4:29 AM
>To: Protel EDA Discussion List
>Subject: Re: [PEDA] Conversion from TANGO SCHEMATIC to PROTEL???
>
>Abd ulRahman,
>
>
> >>Anyone know how to import a schematic from TANGO SCH to Protel?
> >>Also, how about from TANGO PCB to Protel?
> > I know of no way to convert Tango SCH. We can do Tango design if
> > necessary. I think. It has been quite a while.
> > Tango PCB can be imported into Protel using Protel 2.8. I did it quite a
> > few times.
>
>I think Bill also has PCad 2K, so there is a possibility here.
>PCad2K also imports Tango PCBs, even better than Protel 2.8 (on polygons).
>PCad2K also imports Tango ASCII schematics, the trick here is to have the
>complete Tango schematic library, then you have to use Library Executive to
>import the Tango Library to the PCad format, setup the library in the PCad
>schematic program, and then import the Tango schematic.
>Hope this helps.
>
>Best Regards,
>Paulo Egon
>
>
>
>
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