BuddyCAD Viewer+ is a set of freeware applications for viewing/processing P-CAD files.
Copyright (c) 2014-2024 BuddyCAD.org / All rights reserved.

Now with Starter and Demo versions of schematic editor (for SCH/SYM-files) and board editor (for PCB/PRT-files).

BuddyCAD Viewer+ contains following programs for Windows platform (executed locally):

- BuddyCadShell.exe - Windows GUI (graphics user interface) for launching other package programs.
- SCHVIEW.EXE - view electric schemas (binary SCH-files) + generate PLT-files.
- PCBVIEW.EXE - view printed circuit boards (binary PCB-files) + generate PLT-files.
- New! SCHSTART.EXE - edit electric schemas (SCH/SYM-files) - Starter version (*).
- New! PCBSTART.EXE - edit printed circuit boards (PCB/PRT-files) - Starter version (*).
- New! SCHDEMO.EXE - edit electric schemas (SCH/SYM-files) - Demo version (**).
- New! PCBDEMO.EXE - edit printed circuit boards (PCB/PRT-files) - Demo version (**).

(*) - Starter versions have limitations for the number of components, nets and pins.
(**) - Demo versions have no ability to save modified schema/board model.

Following programs of BuddyCAD Viewer+ are executed remotely (internet connection is required):

- BIN2PLOT.EXE - generate PLT-files from binary (SCH or PCB) files.
- PLOTVIEW.EXE - view plot files (binary PLT-files).
- PLOT2BIN.EXE - backward generate binary (SCH or PCB) files from PLT-files.
- PLOT2TIF.EXE - convert PLT-files to TIF format (standard binary format for printing on raster devices).
- PLOT2DXF.EXE - convert PLT-files to DXF format (standard text format for AutoCad drawings).
- PLOT2SVG.EXE - convert PLT-files to SVG format (scalable vector graphics format).
- New! PLOT2HP.EXE - convert PLT-files to HP-GL format (Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language).
- BIN2PDIF.EXE - export schema/board from binary SCH/PCB-format to text PDIF-format.
- PDIF2BIN.EXE - import schema/board from text PDIF-format to binary SCH/PCB-format.
- IMP200X.EXE - import schema/board from P-CAD 200X ASCII-format to binary SCH/PCB-format.

More on http://www.buddycad.org, http://twitter.com/buddycad, and http://www.facebook.com/buddycad.
Report a bug or request new functionality on https://sourceforge.net/p/buddycad/tickets/new/.

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