IPC-2581

[Anonymous]

I have been using Cadsoft/Autodsk Eagle for quite some time and have had very few issues.  However, recently, my preferred local board assembly house has been requesting IPC-2581 ASCII design files in addition to the usual Gerbers, netlist and BoM files.  I have not been able to find any information about IPC-2581 support on the Autodesk website and a call to the Cadsoft support desk confirmed that there is nonsupport for that standard in the current version.  Are there plans to include support for IPC-2581 in a future release of Eagle?  The ability to supply IPC-2581 files significantly reduces the engineering costs for assembly at my preferred vendor.  Thanks, Colin

[jorge_garcia]

Hi @Anonymous,

I hope you're doing well. There are plans to support this and ODB++ in the near future but I don't have an exact time line at this moment. There is a lot going on right now but keep your eyes peeled.

Please let me know if there's anything else I can do for you.

Best Regards,

[Anonymous]

Hi Jorge: Thanks for the update.  I hope Autodesk will publish the IPC-2581 feature when it is released, perhaps in the newsletters. It would be great if we could know the timeline at some point.  Best regards, Colin

[Anonymous]

Hello 🙂 

There is a new version of CAM PCB-Investigator V9 which supports EAGLE XML import to convert it direct to ODB++ and many other formats like IPC 2581.

https://www.pcb-investigator.com/

[Anonymous]

@jorge_garcia +1 for IPC-2581 output from Eagle

[Anonymous]

I'm in the same boat, and am disappointed that there doesn't appear to have been progress on this in the last 2 years.

-Adrian