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Text Line Outside Extent and reuse module
I am trying to reuse a previous layout by using a module. When I pick 10 components, I can place the reuse module on the new design without issue. When I try to fully populate (over 500 components),...
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Creating complex shapes and importing them from .DXF ino pad shapes...
Sometimes I have to create complex pads for footprints (like the small AVX 9175 wire to board connectors).In such cases, AutoCAD is my best friend. It handles "lines and stuff" in an excellent way and...
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Allegro Design Entry HDL 16.6 Hierarchy - How does it work
I have used hierarchy designs before using OrCAD Capture and it was easy and intuitive to use.But how do you use hierarchy designs using Design Entry HDL? I have a few designs with the top level set, I...
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Hide bias voltages
Hello,I have a schematic that I started as a hierarchical design, ran some simulations, and then changed re-annotated all my hierarchical designs so I could produce a PCB.(I think) that since this...
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ERC Error: "Output Connected to Bidirectional Port"
Hi,I am making a hierarchical top-down design in Design Entry CIS v16.6. The root schematic has hierarchical blocks connected by Named Netgroups; the hierarchical pins have been designated as...
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HOW TO ADD VOID TEXT IN COPPER POUR
IM IMPORTED A LOGO. It should be placed on top copper pour. but logo text not containe copper (void).INVERTED TEXT CREATION.
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CIS Variant - Cannot Link Database part -
Hi,I have to build different variants from my schematic and try to link a part in the part manager, that have the same footprint, but a different name for the schematic part.If I try this I get the...
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Change shape fill type
Using PDB designer 16.6.I'd like to put a shape on the silkscreen layer that is a copy of a route keepout shape but is crosshatched. If use the shape copy feature (Z-copy) I can create the shape but it...
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How to re-use old footprints from an Allegro design
Hi,Simple question (maybe). I have exported the library of components from an Allegro 16.2 layout into a directory. Everything looks perfect. However, and this might be my inexperience, every...
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Manufacturing option menu in OrCAD
How to get the panel editor, dfm checker, doc editor menus in legacy OrCAD menus?I get those in Allegro PCB Designer and new OrCAD menu structure from Manufacture menu but not in legacy OrCAD?
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Board Simulation Issue - Via Model not found
This an FYI for folks doing SI work.My wonderful IT team upgraded all our PC's to windows 10. At that time they change all user names from first intial last name to fistname.lastname cuasing a major...
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Lock Traces in Layout 17.2
I am trying to route traces as shields. Whenever I duplicate a connection, a trace on another layer, which I inted to be there, but which is a duplicate gets deleted. Is there a way I can lock traces...
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Importing OrCAD Capture 16.6 into Capture 16.2 using EDF Importation
Hi,Thought I had a solution, but NO! Friend has OrCAD 16.6 Capture and has a fairly hierachial schematic. So I had him export to an EDF format which worked fine. However, when I got it, I could...
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3D Step file creation in Allegro?
Is there a way to create a 3D part step file in Allegro during a part creation? If relying on other software tools is required then when will this feature be incorporated?Thank you-
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Allegro 17.2 Orcad Translator?
Hello. We were just recently upgraded to Allegro 17.2 from 16.6. We have a lot of boards that were done in Orcad 9 and with 16.6 we were able to use the Orcad translator to bring these old designs into...
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Site setting for Drill Chart sizes .DLT
Hi,I can go into the installation directory and edit the .DLT files to change the drill chart dimensions. Is there a user preference path that can be used to automatically select site generated .DLT...
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NCroute file doesn't lineup properly with artwork and drl files
Hi,I tried to generate the ncroute in the manufacturing to get the details of the rectangular slots in my board design. Unfortunately when viewed in the gerber viewer it was not matching the excellon...
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disabling annotate/back annotate constraints from capture to/from Allegro
I have a schematic with no constraints set. I swapped some pins in Allegro and back annotated the pcb file to capture. This added the constraints from the pcb file to the schematic. If I update the...
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Combine ground nets
I have a schematic with two ground signals - GND_SIGNAL and GND_POWER. I want to combine their netnames so they tie to the same inner plane. Can this be done, and if so, how?
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ODB++ file extract error on pin data format during manufacturing
Hi,I tried to create the odb++ file for the pcb vendor to extract the pin data and to do the fabrication process, he came back saying an error that the pin data on the components in step folder, saying...
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