Hello, Is there a way to change the Attribute Visibility across hierarchical design? Example: In a 75 pages of hierarchical design, each component has a...
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tomrwild
Aug 2, 2007 11:37 am
... a "PART_NO" ... Hello, One of Mentor's finest, Matt Killinger, was kind enough to write me a script that traverses the hierarchy, and allows you to do...
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ian thomas
itinfleet
Aug 2, 2007 5:05 pm
Any idea's how to add mechanical parts to the BOM, I only want them to appear in the BOM and do not need them in the netlist or PCB or Schematic. It's for...
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Olav Folland
olav_folland
Aug 2, 2007 5:19 pm
Ian, you need to assign a class in the symbol, and exclude that class from the netlist.... something like "CLASS=MECH" You will need to have them in the...
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john_ruf@...
j_ruf_agilent
Aug 2, 2007 5:20 pm
Create a symbol that you wish to use for defining the mechanical part. We created one that looks like one row of a table, so you can stack several of them...
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David Dalke
daviddalke
Aug 2, 2007 5:46 pm
Ian, You need to use the CLASS=LAB attribute. There is a technote (mg39738) on SupportNET that describes this. I have pasted the text from the technote...
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john_ruf@...
j_ruf_agilent
Aug 2, 2007 6:13 pm
Olav mentioned using "CLASS=MECH". Our understanding is that we use that type of construct to do the opposite - eliminate parts from the material lister, while...
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Hank Lydick
hanklydick
Aug 2, 2007 7:29 pm
Ian, EDAConnect supports adding mechanical parts to the BOM Solution Overview http://www.perceptionsoftware.com/?nd=data_management I'm glad to answer any...
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Austin Franklin
austinfranklin
Aug 2, 2007 7:46 pm
Hi Ian, ... You have to put them in the schematic for this to work... Assuming you are using PADS for layout, in the powerpcb50.cfg file (or what ever your...
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Austin Franklin
austinfranklin
Aug 2, 2007 7:57 pm
Hi John, ... Not in my experience. To have parts NOT be in the BOM, but be sent to the PCB: 1) add an unattached attribute "CLASS=PCB" to the symbol you want...
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Olav Folland
olav_folland
Aug 2, 2007 9:36 pm
I meant that something along those lines should be in the symbol. But you are correct, the class needs to be defined as a PKG CLASS in the .ini file. The...
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john_ruf@...
j_ruf_agilent
Aug 3, 2007 12:27 am
Having realized this recently has caused us to wonder just what the origin of that CLASS=LAB syntax was. I have read everything I could find in the...
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Chombeau, Mike
mikechombeau
Aug 3, 2007 12:58 am
You are better off setting CLASS to something that makes sense such as MECH and then aliasing MECH to LAB in your viewpcb config file Mike Chombeau Validation...
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ian thomas
itinfleet
Aug 4, 2007 1:25 pm
Thanks, Austin It's working great now. Ian Austin Franklin <yahoogroups@...> wrote: Hi Ian, ... You have to put them in the schematic for this to...
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rajashekar
rajashekar_g...
Aug 4, 2007 1:25 pm
Hello, I am having a problem with Design Architect tool in mentor grapphics, when i try to open this tool, it is showing an error message that " line 221...
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Austin Franklin
austinfranklin
Aug 4, 2007 1:38 pm
You're welcome Ian. ... From: DxDesigner_Users@yahoogroups.com [mailto:DxDesigner_Users@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of ian thomas Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007...
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Dan H.
siliconvlyman4u
Aug 4, 2007 11:29 pm
Lan I am assuming your using these for mounting holes or something like that? If that's the case you do want them in your netlist, if not every time you do an...
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Todd Harrison
todd_pro
Aug 8, 2007 2:20 pm
Hi guys, we are trying to make our netlist work for a medium sized design, and get strange results. maybe one of you knows what to do about this. We have...
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Chombeau, Mike
mikechombeau
Aug 8, 2007 3:52 pm
These errors mean that the number of pins (or names of pins) on your schematic symbol and your layout footprint do not match. Compare the device files of the...
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ecadman87
Aug 8, 2007 4:29 pm
Take some advice from an old timer, my recommendation is Don't put mechanical parts in schematics. We went down this road many yeras ago thinking we can have...
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Todd Harrison
todd_pro
Aug 8, 2007 5:09 pm
It would be nice if it were that simple to solve, but we have checked the symbols, they are good. In fact, the devices are both three pins. We are not yet to...
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Mark Degregg
greggula
Aug 8, 2007 6:06 pm
Hello, Can anyone offer any general tips for smooth transisition to proceed to dx_design from an expedition design capture design? ...
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Todd Harrison
todd_pro
Aug 8, 2007 7:46 pm
Guys, the "notes" that resulted from the netlister threw us off. The conflict was that different devices had different pins with the same package type. We...
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nitrogenman2003
Aug 8, 2007 9:17 pm
While your advice is greatly appreciated we are conscripted to utilize Windchill a PLM system. The system extracts a BOM directly from the schematic, Therefore...
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Austin Franklin
austinfranklin
Aug 8, 2007 9:25 pm
I'm not sure what constitutes an "old timer", but I have 30 years in the business. It really depends on what your process system is. For us, putting the...
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Vernon Wnek
vmwnek
Aug 8, 2007 9:29 pm
It would be nice if Mentor would allow us as users to easily embed Mechanical parts into the schematic symbols data in the Library Manager, much in the way...
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rajashekar
rajashekar_g...
Aug 9, 2007 12:20 pm
Hi guys, when i try to open design architect tool by da_ic in red hat linux X86_64,it is showing some error. The error is : MGC_HOME/bin/da_ic: line 221: 4051...
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remi_onur
Aug 9, 2007 12:26 pm
Hi guys, I am having a problem when I generate the PCB netlist (for Allegro 14 or 15) from DxDesigner 2005. The same problem does not occur in the previous...
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Chombeau, Mike
mikechombeau
Aug 9, 2007 3:38 pm
We don't use aliases. They just seem to cause problems such as this. I would remove them from your viewdraw.ini and strip them off your schematics. Mike...
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Hank Lydick
hanklydick
Aug 9, 2007 4:34 pm
Vern, It's easy to use EDAConnect to extract the BOM from Mentor tool flow and merge mechanical parts into the BOM. We can easily accommodate sourcing eCAD and...