NEWBERG, OR – Wise Software has joined the newly formed IPC-2581 Consortium to develop a industrywide CAD data transfer format.

In a statement, Wise committed to working the consortium to ensure a smooth transfer of IPC-2581 data between VisualCAM and the various industry producers and consumers of PCB design data.

The CAM software provider invested in the development of IPC-2581 support early and released its first products with import/export of IPC-2581 in late 2005, the year following the official release of the specification.

In early 2006, the company began shipping VisualCAM with IPC-2581 support at no extra cost to help promote the adoption of the specification.

The IPC-2581 Consortium was founded by a host of major printed circuit board software companies including Cadence, Zuken and Adiva. For more information, click here.