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[William Basser]

I am assuming the netduino board layout files is in eagle format. When I attempt to open the .brd file, I get an error indicating there is a file error. Any suggestions. I'm trying to find TP 1. http://www.yahoo.com/

[Chris Walker]

Hi William, TP1 is the gold pad on the top-right corner of the Netduino Plus (just below and to the right of digital pin 0). If you have one of the "Rev A" boards, it'll be a gold pad covered by a bit of solder The files are 4-layer .BRD files, created in Cadence Allegro. The free version of Eagle cannot handle the files (or any 4-layer files, actually). Chris

[Greg Bogumil]

Hi William,

TP1 is the gold pad on the top-right corner of the Netduino Plus (just below and to the right of digital pin 0). If you have one of the "Rev A" boards, it'll be a gold pad covered by a bit of solder

The files are 4-layer .BRD files, created in Cadence Allegro. The free version of Eagle cannot handle the files (or any 4-layer files, actually).

Chris

Which verion are the files saved in (13, 14, 15, 16)? Also, if it is one of the versions handled by more than one version of Allegro, do you recommend one version over another?

-Greg

[Chris Walker]

Greg: we typically use the latest software--so if you want to edit the files in Allegro you'll want to use the latest version. Chris

[x893]

Usually human add note about which program need for open file.

[Chris Walker]

Usually human add note about which program need for open file.

Good point Let me see if we can switch over to a ZIP file with additional notes.

[Earthed]

Eagle Cad: I've seen that Eagle has a brd2sch.exe file in other forums, Unfortunately I still use Protel 99SE, and can only read .DDB files if anyone can help I would appreciate it. Maybe an Altium user could assist.