I've generated some library parts and a small harness design, locally on my PC. To enable this design to be worked on by a colleague, I need to transfer these files to a central location on a server --- which will also enable it to be backed up regularly.
I've searched on my PC for the design name, harness name, wire names within the design etc but I'm unable to locate the source files. What specifically should I be searching for?
Thanks
Clare
Is there are difference? Or is attribute the deprecated name for a property?
For example, in the PADS Schematic Design Users Guide, PADS VX.1.2 document PKG_TYPE is referenced as both an attribute (pages 300-302) and property (page 103).
Is there a glossary of xDxDesigner terms as a standalone document or in the DxDesigner documentation? I couldn't find one for DxDesigner although the PADS Layout ref guide has a glossary at the end. I did find a dated Mentor glossary document, Mentor Graphics Glossary, Software Release B.1, Part No. 059337 at http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~sohi/cs552/Handouts/MentorDocs/mentor_graphics_glossary.pdf
From Dxdatabook I run a new hierarchical verification. In the results there are some symbols with missing properties, so I press the "update all unique matches with missing properties" button and then "Update design" button.
The problem is after this all the missing properties (and some more on the symbols were missing properties) will appear as visible in the schematics.
As you can guess this is a big mess turning the schematic very difficult to read...
How to avoid that this add the properties visible?
Thanks.
Hi Everyone,
is there a way to split a schematic to two separated symbols on the "Top level" design?
If possible , would appreciate instructions
Thanks !
Pini
Does anyone have a good way to translate PADS schematics and layout files to DxDesigner/Xpedition?
I can translate the PADS schematics no problem to DxDesigner but it's getting the PADS Layout files in Xpedition that is given me problems.
After importing the schematic into DxDesigner I launch Xpedition through DxDesigner. Once Xpedition is running I try to Import the designs files that I got using the PADS translator. This fails and I get several error boxes pop-up:
From what I can tell in "ImportDesignData.txt" file Xpedition is not finding the Parts in the central library so the design cannot be imported. I had assumed all the parts data was in the import directory and would be added to the central library as part of the import process.
At this point am sure I've missed something, if any can help me out to make the translation easier please let know. Thanks in advance.
Hello,
Is it posible to change the padstack using automation?
I am trying to create a 3 phase circuit breaker. Our method is to utilize 3 separate symbols, one for the Top, one for the middle, and one for the bottom, and then merge the individual symbols into a single design object. The Styling of a 3 phase circuit breaker is to have the functional description above the top symbol, the amperage at in the bottom center of bottom symbol and the Reference Designator below the bottom circuit breaker as shone below
All of this information comes from properties on the object. Queries are used to control the visibility and placement in the style set. The issue that I am having is that I can not control which symbol gets which data. Currently if an apply style is done to the object itself, the information is placed in regards to each symbol.
Is there a way to control the styling to a specific symbol of a multi symbol object.
Hi all,
I am looking for a way to export IDF and DXF via VB script automation.
I found this thread here,
https://communities.mentor.com/message/38391#comment-38391
but I am not able to get how its done. Are there other ways existing since 2012?
I am on Expedition - VX1.
Does also someone have experience within Expedition PCB with
"pcbDoc.CCZExportControl" or "EDXExportControl" how do I
handle these Objects, what can I do with them???
Thanks in advance
Is anyone using c or c++ for automation? It would be nice to see some examples of accessing the database.
Thanks!
Search does not appear to be working.
Regards,
Pat
A question from Mentor Japan AE Motonami-san is working with a customer who is planning their upgrade strategy.
I have a question in regarding Capital System requirement.
In the system requirement document of Capital 2015.1 in below, you can see the difference between the formulas where the explanation says 1.2 but the examples use 0.8.
Calculating Oracle drive space requirements
The following formula can be used to calculate the recommended drive space to be allocated to
the Oracle database.
Recommended drive space (GB) = 1.2 x VPs x REVs x WireMF
Where:
6 Capital & VeSys 2.0 2015.1 System Requirements
February 2016
VPs = Expected number of vehicle programs
REVs = Expected average number of revisions per design in a vehicle program
WireMF = Number of wires in thousands (rounded up) in a program without revisions (e.g. if expected number of wires is 29,890 then WireMF=30. If expected number of wires is 2,500 then WireMF = 3)
Example 1
When calculating the storage requirements for the next 5 years of a single vehicle program with 1,300 wires and 6 revisions (2 revisions in the first year and 1 revisions per year for every year after that), the formula states:
Recommended drive space (GB) = 0.8 x 1 x 6 x 1.3 = 6.24 GB
Example 2
When calculating the storage requirements for the next 5 years of a single vehicle program with 300,000 wires and 215 revisions (200 revisions for the first two years and 5 revisions per year for every year after that), the formula states:
Recommended drive space (GB) = 0.8 x 1 x 215 x 300 = 51,600 GB
Thank you and best regards.
Pat (for Motonami-san who like some other AEs cannot currently access this forum)
Hello,
I need for a current script-project an unique identification of different schematics in DxDesigner. I first thought of using the name of the schematic, but it can be changed by the user.
Therefore, I need a way to
I also thought about using a symbol on the schematic as an ID, but as schematics could have more than one sheet, it would be either not consistent or hard to maintain.
Thanks in advance
Marco
Hello,
we are facing a node-locked license issue after changing from LM_LICENSE_FILE environment variable to MGLS_LICENSE_FILE.
New license file (with new format) was downloaded from SupportNet.
Environment variable MGLS_LICENSE_FILE was exported:
export MGLS_LICENSE_FILE=/home/fusion/target.lic
But following error is reported:
The license manager error is:
No such feature exists.
Feature: gcc_ARM_GNULinux
License path: /opt/Gen3TC/MentorGraphics/Sourcery_CodeBench_for_ARM_Embedded/libexec/gcc/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/4.8.3/../../../../license/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/target.lic:/home/fusion/target.lic:
FLEXnet Licensing error:-5,357
For further information, refer to the FLEXnet Licensing documentation,
available at "www.flexerasoftware.com".
Your host ID(s) are: 0025646be203
arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc: error: /opt/Gen3TC/MentorGraphics/Sourcery_CodeBench_for_ARM_Embedded/bin/../libexec/gcc/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/4.8.3/cs-license: non-zero exit status
make: *** [bt_appl/state_manager/audio_state.o] Error 1
Any idea what we are doing wrong? Is it possible that there are some old data from previous license handling which has to be removed?
Is there any further information we can provide to come closer to the root cause?
Many thanks,
tino
Hello all,
I'm new to this forum. I started working with CHS about 3 months ago and I just started working with Capital Integrator. I have one question already though:
I'm importing the XML files from the harnesses that I need to add to the integrator plane. These XML files I've exported from Creo Parametric 2.0. In Parametric, I designate the connectors as "XDEV" being "DEV" the device name from Capital Logic. So when I import the XML into the Integrator plane, the slots that generate automatically have the same name as the connector itself "XDEV". So, before being able to autoplace the devices, I need to delete the X in "XDEV" so the device name will match the slot's.
I can do this by hand, it's not much of a problem. But I was wondering if there's a better way to do it, because if I have a lot of connectors/devices, this is going to take some time and a lot of patience.
Thanks in advance for your help, any input on this is much appreciated.
Cesar Triana
Hi,
I'm facing an issue when setting the differential via spacing. I determined the via spacing using simulations. But I could not find any option to set the via space in XPCB. Is there any option to do that ?
Thank you,
Supun
I'm new to creating a layout. I am trying to forward my schematic to PCB but I'm getting an error.
The Process Indicator is all checked out. There are no errors in the PCB.ERR file.
The errors are in the ascii.err report.
Can't find part Type item
*Part name not found
*Bad *CONNECTION* ascii data format, nets must contain more than one pin. Signal GND
ATTRIBUTE VALUES
Error: Component J1 not found
Warning: deleting signal GND
**INPUT WARNINGS FOUND**
These errors are repeated for all components and signals.
The PADS Status shows:
Reading file -- ...
Converter\Boost.asc-- version 2007.*
**INPUT WARNINGS FOUND**
ASCII import/export report file saved -- C:\PADS
Projects\ascii.err
I checked my schematic. All components attributes look good. The schematic netlist came with no errors. What should I look at?
Hello,
When trying to use the "Area Cut Trace" command the job locks up. In the lower tab it states that the command is processing but it just sits there @ 0%. I eventually have to just manually crash the job. Is anyone else having this issue? I'm using X-ENTP VX.1.1. I'm not sure if it matters, but I do have the older versions of software installed on the same computer. (Ex:7.9.1, 7.9.2, 7.9.4 and 7.9.5). Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Randall Bennett
Sr. PCB Designer
Palpilot International(512) 731-3759
We use Monitors which habe 4K resolution.
Pads Layout is very tiny, several Dialogs are unuseable.
Exists there any possible ways to increase Dialogs and Menüs to support 4K Monitors.
hello,
I'm working at a script who makes:
1. Findout all my variables
2. CloseProject
3. Give all variable to the PDM-System
4. PDM-System zip the project-container and put it in the PDM-filesystem
these steps are ok.
But how can I close the application viewdraw at the end of the script.
here is my script:
Option Explicit
' ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sub App_ProjectClosed
Scripting.AddTypeLibrary("ViewDraw.Application")
Dim vdapp,vddoc, mShell
Set vdapp = GetObject (,"ViewDraw.Application")
Set vddoc = vdapp.ActiveDocument
CloseProject()
Dim AktuelleZeit
AktuelleZeit = Timer
Do
'System nicht blockieren
'DoEvents
Loop Until Timer - AktuelleZeit > 15
'MsgBox "Project wird im OpenEDM gespeichert!"
vdapp.StatusBarText("Das Project wurde OpenEDM gespeichert!")
InsPDM
End Sub
' ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
' ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sub CloseApplication
Scripting.AddTypeLibrary("ViewDraw.Application")
Dim vdapp,vddoc
Set vdapp = GetObject (,"ViewDraw.Application")
vdapp.CloseApplication
End Sub
' ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
' HIER GEHT ES LOS !!!
' Project schliessen und an PDM geben
' ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Schreibrecht
you can answer in german or english.
best regards
Norbert
Newer user to the PADS Pro process, current and former PADS Layout user.
Is it possible to combine two nets at a connector pin, and only at that pin; using PADS Pro? In Layout, this was not possible. The way I got around this was to connect this net to a testpoint (in the schematic), place that testpoint near the pin I wanted to connect to; then on an unassigned layer place a copper piece between these two points (pin and testpoint). In the Gerber routine, I would have to add that layer into the artwork generation.
This would allow the DRC settings to not allow shorting or combining anywhere else except where I wanted these to be combined.
Anyone have any thoughts on how to do this in PADS Pro and xDX Designer?