who the heck came up with this software anyways? I export out a partslister .lst file and when I open it in excel it doesn't delimit properly and shifts...
Greg, You need to look at the help for the part list tool and edit your partlist.ini file. You can pretty much get any format by changing the partlist.ini...
Viewlogic is one of the orginal capture programs (very old) and documentation packages. Xcel may not have even been around at that time or it was too...
I already looked into the partlist.ini, but cannot determine WHAT or HOW to edit it properly to get what I want (yet). THe help files don't show anything. Greg...
Hello everybody, I'm new to DxDesigner. I installed the 2005 version of Expedition Flow. I have problems finding some basic libraries in my installation. Are ...
User2User 2006 had some great learning opportunities again this year. The Dx presentations were very strong, well attended with many exciting and good user...
2005 introduces EXCEL output. The original partlister hadn't changed in 20 years. There is an EXCEL script in the files area of the user group. Additionally ...
... Flow. ... and ... The library that Mentor provides doesn't have much at all. Even if they did, you would still have to edit each symbol to put in your own...
Has anyone had a problem using PADS Layout 2005 (SP1 or SP2) along with ePD 2004... when back annotating resequenced reference designators from layout to...
Yep, the new and improved xls output was a little bit of an downer to me. At first the excel output write's an .lst ?!?! file (While this is an .xls format) ...
After the U2U conference presentation, I thought this was going to be great. Unfortunately it doesn't work as documented. 1. Variables don't work 2. It doesn't...
At the 2006 U2U, Bruce Cary mentioned that there is a top secret (ha ha) way to disconnect a net, preserving the net. I think he said to hit CTRL+R keys while...
While leaving Saturday, I met Baljit Singh at the airport and he asked me if I was going to try it, I should have broke out the laptop at the airport and ...
... I'm a little surprised that there are "secrets" that aren't "revealed" to paying users...not just people who go to U2U...especially if they are useful to...
Hi David, Zoom in, so you can be sure your cursor is within the selection distance of the pin-net connection point. If your cursor is over the net, the net...
I didn't have the opportunity to come to U2U, but it sounds like there were a lot of interesting presentations. Does anyone know when the proceedings will be...
If you were there, you would have learned that there are a lot of secrets. "items being released to a controlled audience because they aren't quite ready for...
I'm surprised this is consider top secret - this functionality has been there since epd 2.0 To release a net from a connected pin do the following: 1) Hoover...
The reason it was top secret is that it was never documented. It's hard to know what the functionality of the tool is if there is no documentation about the...
They gave us a CD, but none of the Mentor presentations were on it. I sent email to Mentor about this, but haven't gotten a response yet. Mike Chombeau ...
Hi, I have a form which will load a symbol so that I can add the NC attribute to the pins. This is handy, because it will supress the pin not connected...
Yes, it's possible, but you need to load a schematic instead of the symbol. Find the component (using ActiveView.Query) then call the Component.GetConnections...
Hi All, do you know how can I easily change the component's name? On a schematic converted from Orcad the component's name it's without any library name...
Valle, Lucio
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Do a search and replace in all the sch ASCII files. That's probably the easiest way. Just make a backup copy before you start. Tony ... Tony John...
Greetings, Does anyone know of a way to remove, or select the symbol attributes that are added to a schematic created through DxPDF? I'd like to have a...
There's a mentor tool just for this purpose. Try searching for "altran" in the DxDesigner help Topics Jason ... -- *Jason Stubbs* /*Efficient Channel Coding*/...
What version of DxDesigner are you using? If you're using 2004SP2 then here are a couple of ways I can think of: 1. Don't annotate the attributes when you...