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File Format (PCB)
Created: July 28, 2015 | Updated: June 17, 2017
| Applies to versions: 15.1, 16.0, 16.1, 17.0 and 17.1
Now reading version 15.1. For the latest, read: File Format (PCB) for version 21
The File Format dialog.
Summary
This dialog allows the designer to save the document in a different file format.
Access
After modifying a binary version 3.0, or 4.0, or 5.0 PCB document, run command File » Save to open this dialog.
Options/Controls
- PCB Binary Version 6.0 - Click on this option to save the current PCB document in PCB Binary version 6.0 format supported by Altium Designer 6.3.
- PCB Binary Version 5.0 - Click on this option to save the current PCB document in PCB Binary version 5.0 format supported by Altium Designer.
- PCB Binary Version 4.0 - Click on this option to save the current PCB document in PCB Binary version 4.0 format supported by Protel 99SE and onwards. The features introduced in Altium Designer will be lost in this format.
- PCB Binary Version 3.0 - Click on this option to save the current PCB document in PCB Binary version 3 format supported by Protel 98 and onwards. The features introduced in Altium Designer will be lost in this format.
- PCB ASCII Version 5.0 - Click on this option to save the current PCB document in PCB ASCII version 5.0 format.