Hello,
I tried searching on the web for this but it seems a little difficult to find a resolved one. I'm using Orcad Capture and PCB Editor 17.2-2016 64-bit. I’m generating a netlist for a board and trying to import it into the PCB Editor for layout. Whenever I export the netlist, I think it is changing the names of my parts where the .dra and .psm library files aren’t the same names as my library symbol names (I made sure my paths are correct for the padpath and psmpath under User Preferences). For instance I have a 1k Ohm resistor that is a 0603 package. The .dra and .psm files are named 0603 because all I really care about is the PCB Footprint field and not the device type or value associated with the part. However, when I go to place the resistor in the PCB Editor it says it can’t find the symbol for RESISTOR_0603_1K because it is looking for that name in the .dra and .psm library files instead of 0603. If I change the .dra and .psm library files to RESISTOR_0603_1K instead of 0603 it works successfully but I would rather just have the PCB Footprint used for the library name.
From the Viewlog:
My question is how do I change the netlist output configuration where it only exports the PCB Footprint field (0603) and does not concatenate the Source Package, PCB Footprint, and Value fields (RESISTOR_0603_1K)?
Here is my netlist configuration:
Thanks!