One task that has always been a difficult challenge is being able to move electronic product designs from one design environment to another. Whether you have changed design tools or acquired designs from another company, at some stage you will need to import a schematic or PCB design into Altium Designer.

Altium Designer 6.0 unifies the import process for importing designs from a variety of different design tools. The new Importer Wizard walks you through the import process, handling both the Schematic and PCB parts of the project, as well as managing the relationship between them.

The architecture of the new Importing Wizard is designed to allow the easy addition of new importers, without additional complexity for the designer using the system.

From the Wizard you can then select to import the following types of design projects:

• Protel 99 SE design databases
• CircuitMaker 2000 schematics and libraries
• P-CAD schematic and PCB designs and libraries
• OrCAD® schematic and PCB designs and libraries
• PADS® PCB designs and libraries