Set options that affect how CircuitWorks reads PADS (*.asc) data.
To display CircuitWorks Options - PADS Import, from the CircuitWorks Options dialog box, click PADS Import 
.
To display the
CircuitWorks Options dialog box, do one of the following:
- From CircuitWorks, click the CircuitWorks application menu
, then click Options 
.
- From SolidWorks, click .
| PADS file encoding |
Selects the character encoding for PADS files. Select one of the following:
- ASCII
- Western Europe (Windows 1252)
- Japanese (Shift_JIS)
If characters do not display properly in CircuitWorks, you might have the wrong encoding selected for your region. |
| These Component Prefixes represent PADS Mounting Holes |
PADS (*.asc) files present holes as components with certain prefixes. The commonly used prefixes are represented by the default value: MTHOLE;MTG;MTH;MH. Add additional prefixes as needed, separated by semicolons (;).
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| Swap part name and part number |
By default, CircuitWorks derives the names of component models it generates from the part names in PADS files. Select this option to generate part names using part numbers instead. |