The .PCB extension is used by several CAD/CAE systems to identify PCB
design files If you search the archives for Technet and  Designercouncil
you will find a thread that list them out for you. Most of the .PCB
extension files I have dealt with can be identified by opening them I an
ASCII text editor like MS Notepad. There should be a plain text entry
with the design tool and revision listed in the header of the file.

Jeffrey A McGlaughlin, CID
Engineering Designer
Battelle Memorial Institute
Columbus Ohio
http://www.battelle.org
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-----Original Message-----
From: Gordon McAlpine [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 7:49 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [TN] .pcb files

I was wondering if anyone can give some assistance to a problem we are
having at present. We usually send our gerber files to our pcb
manufacturers in order to get boards made. A customer however has
supplied a .pcb file. We have nothing to view what this file is and when
sent to our pcb manufacturers, they have come back with a response of
"cannot read this file type".

Does anyone know what this file extension is, and if so, how can it be
read?

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