Mentor Integra to Altium

[emballage]

Hi there,

I have a annoying issue and need your help. Because of reasons I need to work with projects created by a software called "Integra", which was a product of mentor graphics (In the 90s?). Using this very old software in a VM is pain. Did anyone figure out a way to convert those old projects to Altium? Or maybe to some version of Mentor and then to Altium? That would be awesome.

Thanks in advance!

Best regards
emballage

[thm_w]

You can see the list here: https://www.altium.com/documentation/altium-designer/design-tools-interfacing#interfacing-to-eda-design-tools not supported

It might be possible to convert to something on that list then to altium, but I don't think that is worth your time.

[emballage]

It seems like "Pulsonix" can import those files. I requested a trial version to check it out. Pulsonix can export to more usefull formats.

[nctnico]

Unless this is a really complicated board, it may be more efficient to just redo the layout instead of trying to fix-up conversion errors. For many layouts placement of the components is most of the work and that is already done. I have not seen conversion between PCB CAD packages work well (even when from the same company) because in many cases the primitives that make up the PCB design and footprints are not defined in a similar way.

[emballage]

I would not be doing this, if it was not an important and complicated board 

[emballage]

Pulsonix can import old Integra projects without any issues, it is possible to work on them there. If anyone ever has the same issue