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Working with IDF Best Practices: Working with IDF October 2019 13 Product Version 17.4-2019 © 1999-2019 All Rights Reserved. If a symbol with this name is already defined, then it is used; otherwise a new symbol is defined. This symbol contains a single instance (a pin) of a padstack with the same name and is placed at the drilled hole's x,y location. As you can see, there are three methods of exporting drill holes from Pro/ENGINEER to Allegro PCB Editor: ■ Modify the value of the hole TYPE in Pro/ENGINEER to use an existing padstack name ■ Build a Allegro PCB Editor library with full-featured padstacks using the naming formula above ■ Replace all hole symbols with existing library symbols after importing the IDF file In Pro/ENGINEER, the following ECAD parameters are used to change the values of the fields 4, 6 and 7 in the syntax listed in the beginning of this section: ■ ECAD_HOLE_TYPE = PIN, VIA, MTG, TOOL, other ■ ECAD_PLATING_STYLE =NPTH, PTH ■ ECAD_HOLE_OWNER = MCAD, ECAD, UNOWNED Pro/ENGINEER ECAD Area to Allegro PCB Editor Object Mapping Table 1-4 shows the object mapping from Pro/ENGINEER to Allegro PCB Editor. Table 1-4 Pro/ENGINEER/Allegro PCB Editor Object Mapping Pro/ENGINEER 2001 Object Name IDF Object Name Allegro PCB Editor Object Name Board outline depending on the coordinate system BOARD_OUTLINE Class: BOARD_GEOMETRY Subclass: OUTLINE Voids/cutouts allowed. PANEL_OUTLINE PANEL_OUTLINE Class: BOARD GEOMETRY Subclass: PANEL_OUTLINE. If this subclass does not exist, idf_in creates it automatically. If an outline exists on BOARD GEOMETRY / PANEL_OUTLINE, idf_out exports it.