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Adding custom Properties to Part Symbols

Is there a way to add specfic properties to a part symbol, such as "created:", "modified by:", "comment" or other company specific requirements?

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Analysis Of German PCB Market Data September

September sales of PCB in Germany were up by 10% year-on-year, according to the Central Association of PCB and Electronic Systems. Sales for the first three quarters of the year, meanwhile, PCB are...

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China's largest PCB

China's largest PCB,The best price and quality.Are you interested in to have a look.Still can give you a discount.http://pcb.hqew.net/

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How to delete a PIN in package design editor ( Allegro 16.2)

 Dear All,While designing  a footprint in package design editor of Allegro 16.2, I wrongly placed a PIN (PAD).But I want to delete it now. How it ccan be done.Kind Regards, 

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Importing Complete Designs as Subdrawings

All,I am looking to be able to save a complete design as a sub drawing and reimport it into either the same drawing or merge two or more seperate drawings to make a mixed panel. On these designs I will...

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Netlist failure - duplicate Name issue

I have a multi-page design originally created in Capture 10.  Now that I'm making a netlist in Capture 16.5, I got an mismatch error between xprt and xnet.  After a quick search, it's quite clear that...

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strange unconnected pins

 I have a very simple desige, only have few compnents. I noticed that in the unconnected pins report have many pins that connected.the design used to be 16.2 or even early version. I upgrded to 16.6...

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Team Design - Unable to recognize permissions of shared area

I decided to try the Team Design approach. I requested that a Samba share workspace be set up as there are a mix of PC and Unix users on the team. I am able to access this share from my PC (Windows 7)...

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Capture CIS_Show Footprint

Can someone explain how I can set the correct paths for my symbol library so that I can view footprints inside capture. I have set the psmpath to the folder where my .psm and .dra files are located in...

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Find a net on schematic page?

When I do a DRC on a schematic page I get a warning:  "Net has fewer than two connections N14105".  No warning marker is shown on the schematic and I can't find this net on the page.  How do I find...

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How to Lock constraints

Hi ,I wanted to know if its possible to lock constraints in constraint Manager so that once constraints are set it will not be changed knowingly or unknowingly. Thank youRegards Prasanth

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Exporting .brd file to DXF

Does anyone know how to export a .brd file to DXF?Every time I try, I get a message saying "Given layer filename does not exist. You must create one".I have no idea what this means and the help menu is...

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Why the same net via and shape can not connect togeter?

I have met a problem when use 16.5 in divide power layer, the same net with the dynamic shape and via cannot connect together.  just like pic as follow or link. The via avoid the shape. And I want to...

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Design Entry HDL-How to print a pdf for selected component

Good morning,I´m looking for a method in Allegro Design Entry HDL 16.5 to print a pdf file only for the selected components and net in a schematic.Is that possible?Thanks

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How do you change the size of existing text?

I've figured out how to change the "Text Block #" (size) of new text I type by going through Setup > Design Parameter > Text tab > Parameter Block, but how do you change the size of text that...

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[Question] In specctra router, the screen can't be zoom in or out by dragging...

It looks the specctra doesn't run, but the edit--> zoom in  can works. Why?Have any guy encounterred this problem? 

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allegro 16.6 does not create bus functionality?

I use cadence16.6, did not find a function in allegro bus created inside the Constraint Manager, this version does not have this functionality? Please help me!

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Create two separate symbols for one Part in Part Developer

Hi,I am trying to create a part symbol for schematic (in Design Entry HDL) and this part comes with alot of pins,is it possible to generate two symbols (two rectangles) for one part from Part...

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How can I preserve designators from changes?

HiIn the Orcad capture schematic environment when we try to copy a page in a project file and paste it into an another project all designators automatically changes.How can I preserve them from...

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Half bridge: Totally different results with ideal switch vs MOSFETs

Hello all,I'm new to PSPICE and I'm trying to simulate a simple half-bridge inverter. When I simulate the topology with ideal switches, the output voltage corresponds to a train of rectangular pulses...

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