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Converting Eagle to Altium Designer

Is there any way to get an Eagle design converted to Altium Designer?

Even if I will have to go via another program that will be acceptable.

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The *Magical Tool* thing has been discussed before

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If your tool can't deal with ASCII files at a *reasonable* level to get you the usual percentage of labor saved when translating,

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JeffM

What you say is: grab the current schematic in one hand and the mouse in the other and just get the work done?? :-)

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>Is there any way to get an Eagle design converted to Altium Designer?

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