The Allegro installation can be on any machine, and is only used to generate suitable ASCII PCB design files.We have many Altium seats here, if you wanted to "use" a license to try the first method, I can create a temporary login to our license for Altium, however you will need to download and install Altium on the same machine. Since Allegro binary-to-ASCII conversion is a self-contained file process, the Allegro installation does not need to be accessed by Altium Designer. The ASCII PCB design files are extracted from native Allegro PCB files (*.brd) by Allegro’s included file converter (extracta.exe), which is called by a special batch file supplied with Altium Designer.
Try to view the Gerber files from the design instead. The Wizard uses Allegro’s included file conversion capabilities to configure the design data for processing by the importer.Īltium Designer’s Import Wizard can import and translate ASCII-based Allegro PCB files (*.alg) that have been created from a licensed Allegro PCB installation. Unfortunately, the Allegro free viewer available from Cadence website works only on Windows OS and being a Proprietiary software I dont think any other software will be able to view the brd files. The Import Wizard can directly import and translate Allegro PCB files (*.brd) to Altium Designer PCB files (*.PcbDoc) when the Wizard has local access to an Allegro PCB editor installation – that is, when a licensed copy of Allegro PCB is installed on the same machine as Altium Designer.