Hi Ahne,

Ahne Oosterhof wrote:
> And of course there is the little detail that ODB++ is a proprietary
> format belonging to Valor and they can change, extend or "improve"
> the format with version changes which may or may not be compatible
> with previous versions, leaving other viewer providers playing
> catch-up.

In last few years, ODB++ has evolved to ODB++(X), which is an XML based
version of ODB++. From there on, ODB++(X) was merged with ideas from
GenCAM of IPC and new open standard called IPC-2581 was born. IPC-2581
was released march 2004 and is available from IPC.

I wonder when will we start to see first PCB manufactures requesting for
IPC-2581 format.

Indrek

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