Input formats vary greatly. All of them are trying to convey your designs. Some emphasize the design more than the manufacture portion of the production of an assembly. Here are some links that we found interesting and pertinent to the formats.

Input Formats:

Accel EDA (.pcb) Allegro (Extract) Allegro IPF
AutoCAD ADI Barco (DPF) CAMCAD Attribute File Format
CASE Plot DMIS V3 AutoCAD
DXF or DWG
Eagle Layout EDIF V 200...400 Excellon Drill & Route
FABMASTER FATF GenCAD GenCAM V1.1
Gerber(RS-274-X) HP EGS Archive HPGL/HPGL2
IGES IPC350/356/356A Mentor Board Station V8
Mentor Neutral File ODB++ Orcad (.min)
PADS (.asc) PCAD PDIF Layout Protel PCB V2.8
Protel PFW Schematic Scicards/Encore (CII) Layout Unicad/BNR
THEDA (.tl) Layout UNICAM PDW VB ASCII Layout
Veribest EIF Layout VIEWDRAW Zuken/Redac (.paf)
Zuken CR3000 Layout Special

Some common CAD systems and their file extensions to help identify the file you have.


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