In Altium Designer, the logical design area begins with a document, and for each document there is a file stored on the hard drive. There can be multiple schematic sheets within a single P-CAD schematic design file (*.SCH file). In P-CAD, all design work begins on the sheet, the logical working area of the design. Right-mouse command menus are available for further control over the translation process through each page of the wizard.ДЇigure 1: Import Wizard as started from the File Menu. Click on this menu command to launch the wizard as shown below in Figure 1. The Import Wizard can be launched from the Altium Designer File menu. The fundamentals of how components are defined, their properties, and basic relationships between components, models and library concepts are explained further in Component, Model, and Library Concepts. The steps for translating your P-CAD designs and libraries using the Import Wizard look like this: Translated P-CAD libraries are automatically grouped in an integrated library package (*.LibPkg). Libraries which contain solely symbol information do not import as Altium Designer does not have the same concept of a symbol as P-CAD (described later). Libraries that contain both component and symbol information translate into Altium Designer schematic library files (*.SchLib).Libraries that contain both pattern and symbol information translate into both Altium Designer PCB library files (*.PcbLib), and schematic library files (*.SchLib) respectively.Libraries that contain solely pattern information translate into Altium Designer PCB library files (*.PcbLib).P-CAD library (*.LIB and *.LIA) files translate as follows: This document will contain all the print settings from the P-CAD PCB. P-CAD PCB files generate an output job document (*.OutJob) if necessary.These files will be grouped into an Altium Designer PCB project (*.PrjPCB) that is automatically created.Design hierarchy is maintained, including complex hierarchy. Each sheet within a P-CAD schematic file is imported as a single Altium Designer schematic file (*.SchDoc). P-CAD schematic (*.SCH) files translate into Altium Designer schematic files (*.SchDoc).P-CAD PCB (*.PCB) files translate into Altium Designer PCB files (*.PcbDoc).P-CAD design files in the Import Wizard translate as follows: Complete flexibility is found in all pages of the wizard, giving you as little or as much control as you would like over the translation settings before committing to the actual translation process. The Import Wizard removes much of the headache normally found with design translation by analyzing your files and offering many defaults and suggested settings for project structure, layer mapping, PCB pattern (footprint) naming, and more. Translating complete P-CAD designs, including schematics, PCB layout, and library files can all be directly handled by Altium Designer's Import Wizard without converting to ASCII first - thus avoiding the need for having P-CAD installed. P-CAD Components and Altium Designer Components.The Schematic Symbol Is the Component.Using the Import Wizard for P-CAD Files.

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