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...
... 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Ian, EDAConnect supports adding mechanical parts to the BOM Solution Overview http://www.perceptionsoftware.com/?nd=data_management I'm glad to answer any...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
You're welcome Ian. ... From: DxDesigner_Users@yahoogroups.com [mailto:DxDesigner_Users@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of ian thomas Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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