Eagle import tool

[Robert.Adams]

I'm trying to evaluate Altium Designer 14 and the Eagle import tool seems to be relatively useless.  I'm trying with the Arduino  Nano files from here: http://arduino.cc/en/Main/arduinoBoardNano#.UyZYb_ldVmM

I get a message saying they are not 'archived' layout or design files and to add archived .brd, .sch, or .lbr files.  It also claims the files are probably binaries maintained by earlier versions of Eagle.  I downloaded the free version of Eagle 6.5.0 and there doesn't seem to be a way to upconvert these files (I'm not sure they really need it, the tool might just be bad). 

Has anyone had any luck with the Eagle import on Altium?

EDIT: I got the PCB import working.  Maybe there is some weird way to ask Altium nicely to do it.  Schematic is still being stubborn.

[peter.mitchell]

I find with converting boards from eagle to altium, this script is a bit better than the importer
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/677635/export-protelpcb.ulp
but it still isn't perfect.
I found schematic worked perfectly though.

[Fretec]

I've tried the importer with a reasonably complex design and it seems to have imported it correct, besides from the track width:
i.e. a track of 0.25 mm is imported as 10mil (= 0.254mm) 
Anyone has an idea on how to change this? I've tried changing the units to imperial in Eagle, but than the track is still imported as 10mil instead of 9.8xxx

[free_electron]

i've pulled in a few without problems. the files do need to be in the eagle xml format. they don't handle binaries.

you can change the numerical precision altium uses for metric <-> imperial somewhere in the config of altium. you do need to restart Altium if you change it. Altium internally works in a decimal fractions of  imperial ! (mils and 1/1000 mil)

[Fretec]

The files are XML (Eagle 6.4) and even setting the precision to the max value didn't change it 
Wider power traces (0.5mm) are imported as 20 mil - almost 0.5mil error, looks like the importer
round to 1mil. If this is the case, this is either completely dumb or a bug