WHAT IS ConvertPLUS ARE?
ConvertPLUS ARE (Automated Reverse Engineering) is a full- featured, CAM software solution designed to compliment ScanCAD’s family of scanner-based reverse engineering products.

This product takes the Gerber and ASCII component data from the scanning process and creates rich ODB++ and FATF outputs that include the component pin numbering and netlist information needed for CAD upload and schematic generation.

Feature Highlights
  • Accepts IPC-D 356 files, Centroid files (from ScanPLACE) and silkscreen layers to create Reverse engineering component information.
  • Outputs include: ODB++, FATF, ASCII, IPC-D 356 Netlist.
  • Special macro specific to convert Gerber files to ScanCADready files for import.
  • HyperNETLIST Extraction can generate Netlist information for even the largest of designs in a matter of minutes.
  • Import Wizard that loads ALL industry formats (Gerber, Drill, Mill, HPGL, DXF, and more).
  • Intelligent Data Transfer with ODB++, ODB++ (X), and IPC- 2581.
  • Database Navigator provides quick and easy access to all necessary information without the need for menus or toolbars.
Features Convert PLUS Convert PLUS ARE
IPC-2581 import/export X X
ODB++ import/export X X
Modification X X
Redline mark-up X X
Macro/scripting X X
Optimization X X
Quoting information X X
Design rule checking X X
Netlist Import, Export and Compare   X
Assembly Reverse Engineering   X

Assembly Reverse Engineering
  • Integrated Footprint Library: Control “master footprints, device creation and association and pin numbering
  • Parts: Identify, delete, query, BOM report
  • Fiducials: Identify and report
  • Analysis: Device spacing, centroid, comparison, BOM compare
  • BOM Import: Finalize reverse engineering with part numbers, device descriptions, values, and tolerance data
  • Export: FATF, ODB++, ASCII, IPC-D-356 Netlist

Analysis Features
  • Browse Errors Directly from Navigator
  • Graphical Find Duplicates
  • Graphical Layer Compare (Compare Any Two Layers Quickly and Accurately, Browse Differences Through the Navigator)
  • Design Information Queries (Quickly check Min. Air Gap, Min. Trace Width, Number of Conductive Layers, Number of Drill Hits, and More)
  • DRC w/AutoCorrect (Track-to Track, Track-to Pad, Pad-to- Pad, Min. Track, Min. Pad, Board Edge, and More)
  • Graphical Netlist Comparision (Shorts, Opens, No Copper for Net, No External Net for Copper. Errors are Highlighted Using Navigator)
  • Pin-Point Netlist Errors (Quickly Locates Short and Open Errors from Netlist Comparison Results and Highlights the Location)

Advanced Features
  • Database Navigator (Quick Access to Layers, Apertures, Netlists)
  • Layer Sets (Define Layer Sets for Blind & Buried Vias and MCM Stack-Up)
  • Interactive Data Grouping (Group Objects Together for Fast and Easy Editing))
  • HyperNETLIST Extraction (Supports SMT, Thru-Hole, Blind & Buried, and MCM))
  • Layer Scaling
  • Merge Multiple PCB Files)
  • Automatic Draw-to-Flash Conversion (Convert All Layers at Once, Use Mask Layer as Guide) (the “automatic” is only in a higher level product)
  • Polygon Over/Undersize)
*All specifications and designs subject to change without notice. The following are trademarks of the indicated companies: GERBER, The Gerber Scientific Instrument Company; Excellon, Excellon Automation; Sieb & Meyer, Sieb & Meyer GmbH; HP-GL, HP, Hewlett-Packard; MS-DOS, Windows XP, Microsoft®. ConvertPLUS ARE™ is a trademark of ScanCAD International.*

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