modification software required to open/change file with extension 000

[Naveed]

Hello

I have a file with extension .000 of a circuit diagram. I need to modify
the circuit diagram but am unable to open it. I have tried to use orchid
(latest version) but it wont let me. I don't think it will allow a .000
extension file to open or import. Is there any software that I can use to
open a file with this extension? By the way, I need to convert the file
into one useable by OrCAD.

Many thanks

Naveed

 

[Paul Burke]

I have a file with extension .000 of a circuit diagram. I need to modify
the circuit diagram but am unable to open it.

It might help if you told us what CAD system it was originally designed
with. If you don't know, you ARE in trouble.

Paul Burke

 

[Buddy Smith]

Hello

I have a file with extension .000 of a circuit diagram. I need to modify
the circuit diagram but am unable to open it. I have tried to use orchid

What did you use to create the diagram? (or, if not you, whoever created
it)

--buddy

 

[Naveed]

It might help if you told us what CAD system it was originally designed
with. If you don't know, you ARE in trouble.

Paul Burke

I suppose I'm in trouble then!! All I have is the file with .000 extension.
I will do some more searching to see if there is more information I can get
hold of.

 

[Naveed]

orchid

What did you use to create the diagram? (or, if not you, whoever created
it)

--buddy

Sorry I have no idea. Some idiot put the file with .000 extension on our
company network and not the DSN file. Now I need to make some changes, I
can't. Hence my original post.

 

[Jim Thompson]

Sorry I have no idea. Some idiot put the file with .000 extension on our
company network and not the DSN file. Now I need to make some changes, I
can't. Hence my original post.

"DSN" implies OrCAD Capture. Open the ".000" file with UltraEdit and
tell us what you see. I suspect it's a print file in PostScript, so
you'll have to print it out and reenter into a schematic by hand :-(

...Jim Thompson

 

[Ken Smith]

Sorry I have no idea. Some idiot put the file with .000 extension on our
company network and not the DSN file. Now I need to make some changes, I
can't. Hence my original post.

It could be a print or plot file from Orcad.

It is highly likely that you are just screwed. Do you still have the
computer that the "some idiot" used? If so, go look on it.

 

[Jim Thompson]

It could be a print or plot file from Orcad.

I mentioned that before... in my old OrCAD stuff, *.000, *.001, etc.,
are PostScript files.

It is highly likely that you are just screwed. Do you still have the
computer that the "some idiot" used? If so, go look on it.

--

...Jim Thompson

 

[Mac]

I suppose I'm in trouble then!! All I have is the file with .000 extension.
I will do some more searching to see if there is more information I can get
hold of.

If the file isn't proprietary, post it in abse. I might be able to spend
half an hour playing with it this weekend.

I'm pretty busy until then.

--Mac

 

[Naveed]

If the file isn't proprietary, post it in abse. I might be able to spend
half an hour playing with it this weekend.

I'm pretty busy until then.

--Mac

Thanks for the offer, but I cant do that for security reasons
I have found that the 000 extension file is a plot file. I have contacted
the guy who normally deals with this and he said he would try and get the
editable circuit diagram for me.

Thanks for yours and everybody's help. It was very much appreciated.

Naveed

 

[Rich Grise]

I suppose I'm in trouble then!! All I have is the file with .000 extension.
I will do some more searching to see if there is more information I can get
hold of.

How big is this file? It sounds like part of a larger file that's been
split up, so there would be a file.000, file.001, file.002, and so on,
that you would concatenate.

Or it could be a backup file.

Linux has a utility named, of all things, "file" [ ;-) ] , which will
sort of examine any file, and report whatever it can glean from the file
itself about what sort of file it is.

The other day I stumbled across a website about "file extensions," but
all that would do for you is give you a list of things to rename it to
to try it with various apps.

Do you have a website where you could upload the file so people could
take a look at it?

Good Luck!
Rich

 

[Tony Williams]

How big is this file? It sounds like part of a larger file that's
been split up, so there would be a file.000, file.001, file.002,
and so on, that you would concatenate.

Vague memories of an old DOS prog called Splitf,
(and the associated Joinf). Used, as you say,
to split big files into manageable chunks.

 

[Naveed]

I suppose I'm in trouble then!! All I have is the file with .000 extension.
I will do some more searching to see if there is more information I can get
hold of.

How big is this file? It sounds like part of a larger file that's been
split up, so there would be a file.000, file.001, file.002, and so on,
that you would concatenate.

Or it could be a backup file.

Linux has a utility named, of all things, "file" [ ;-) ] , which will
sort of examine any file, and report whatever it can glean from the file
itself about what sort of file it is.

The other day I stumbled across a website about "file extensions," but
all that would do for you is give you a list of things to rename it to
to try it with various apps.

Do you have a website where you could upload the file so people could
take a look at it?

Good Luck!
Rich

Hi Rich

Thanks for your reply. I found out that the file is a plot file created
from OrCAD and that it cannot be edited. I am now going to have to redraw
the circuit. Its not large but will take a few days to do.
Unfortunately, the company I work for will not allow me to upload the
circuit.

Thanks again for your help.

Naveed

 

[Jim Thompson]

Vague memories of an old DOS prog called Splitf,
(and the associated Joinf). Used, as you say,
to split big files into manageable chunks.

In DOS....

copy/b filename.000 lpt1

(where lpt1 is a PostScript printer)

...Jim Thompson

 

[Fred Abse]

I found out that the file is a plot file created
from OrCAD and that it cannot be edited.

If it's a Gerber plot file (you should be able to find a Gerber
viewer that will confirm this), most PCB CAD software has Gerber import
(sometimes as a cost option)

Look around the 'net for a Gerber viewer to try.

 

[Ken Smith]

If it's a Gerber plot file (you should be able to find a Gerber
viewer that will confirm this), most PCB CAD software has Gerber import
(sometimes as a cost option)

Look around the 'net for a Gerber viewer to try.

Gerber files are usually ASCII. You can look at the text of the file and
see what it looks like. I think a Gerber identifies its self as such.

 

[Jim Thompson]

Gerber files are usually ASCII. You can look at the text of the file and
see what it looks like. I think a Gerber identifies its self as such.

--

This thread seems to have become lost and is running in circles. As I
pointed out some time ago, old OrCAD Capture (SCHEMATIC) produced plot
files *.000, *.001, etc., that were actually PostScript. They're easy
to edit so you can print on modern printers. In the old days I even
had a DOS batch file that processed them, and moved the origin all
around, so I could produce 8.5"x11" _tiled_ E-size drawings.

...Jim Thompson

 

[Fred Abse]

This thread seems to have become lost and is running in circles. As I
pointed out some time ago, old OrCAD Capture (SCHEMATIC) produced plot
files *.000, *.001, etc., that were actually PostScript. They're easy
to edit so you can print on modern printers. In the old days I even
had a DOS batch file that processed them, and moved the origin all
around, so I could produce 8.5"x11" _tiled_ E-size drawings.

Ahhh. Can't have been paying attention. Postscript is the native printing
system on this machine.

Postscript files should start "PS-Adobe-[version number] and any old text
editor will view that to check.

Using ghostscript and pstoedit (free), the OP can turn his file into one
of several editable formats. Will ORCAD import DXF?

I've even turned one or two of your posted PDF drawings into DXF that way,
Jim.

Shame he can't post it. If it's proper Postscript, I could do it in ten
minutes.

 

[Jim Thompson]

This thread seems to have become lost and is running in circles. As I
pointed out some time ago, old OrCAD Capture (SCHEMATIC) produced plot
files *.000, *.001, etc., that were actually PostScript. They're easy
to edit so you can print on modern printers. In the old days I even
had a DOS batch file that processed them, and moved the origin all
around, so I could produce 8.5"x11" _tiled_ E-size drawings.

Ahhh. Can't have been paying attention. Postscript is the native printing
system on this machine.

Postscript files should start "PS-Adobe-[version number] and any old text
editor will view that to check.

I'm not sure if "Adobe" was there in the old days.

Using ghostscript and pstoedit (free), the OP can turn his file into one
of several editable formats. Will ORCAD import DXF?

I believe so. I only use it for conversions since they f...d it over
when they went to their own "windows" version.

I've even turned one or two of your posted PDF drawings into DXF that way,
Jim.

I have a print driver, "Universal Document Converter", that can take
almost anything (including scans) as input, and output just about any
file format known to man.

Shame he can't post it. If it's proper Postscript, I could do it in ten
minutes.

Yep. In my DOS days I was quite adept at manipulating PostScript.

I vaguely recall either posting or E-mailing to someone all of my old
OrCAD batch files.

...Jim Thompson