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Technical Documentation Exporting a Design to PADS Logic Altium Designer includes a software extension for exporting design project schematics to a format of Siemens EDA® PADS™ Logic 5.0. The PADS Logic Exporter extension creates outputs compatible with PADS Logic 5.0 using a text file format, which should also be supported by future versions of PADS. To access the PADS Logic Exporter in Altium Designer, the PADS Logic Exporter software extension must…

Technical Documentation Importing a Design from PADS Logic & PADS Layout Translating PADS™ designs, including PADS™ Logic schematics, PADS™ Layout PCB files, and library files can all be handled by Altium Designer's Import Wizard. The Import Wizard removes much of the headache normally found with design translation by analyzing the imported files and offering defaults and suggested settings for the project structure, layer mapping, PCB footprint naming, and more. The…