Import Pads PowerPCB .asc or .pcb file into Kicad 8?

[niari]

Hi,

I have PCB information for an Analog Devices evaluation board.

There’s a .asc file and a pcb file. The first line of the .asc file is

!PADS-POWERPCB-V3.0-BASIC! DESIGN DATABASE ASCII FILE 2.0

There’s an old post from 2016 but the directions are out-of-date. Import of .asc files don’t seem to be a supported format in Import Non KiCad Board file.

I tried importing the .pcb file into pcbnew but despite a 3,315kb kicad_pcb file, nothing is displayed.

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I’m not looking to reproduce the PCB just learn from the layout.

Any suggestions please?

Thanks.

[niari]

I’m going to answer my own question here. I’ve been able to export the gerbers from the gerber viewer into pdbnew.

This will be sufficient for my educational needs.

[retiredfeline]

Feel free to mark your second post as the answer by clicking on the tickbox icon.

[paulvdh]

If you want to go further, see the FAQ article below.

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