Rich Your "black-box databall" is tiresome. (It was never funny.) Change the record - it's skipping. Can we please try and be productive or proactive on this...
Ivor, Ok, my bad, I should have been clear that the problem with the fonts in the output from DxPDF is that they are always way too small to read, unlike the...
Rich, Thanks for sharing. With the 3 line dxpdf.ini file (below) I get good correlation with the schematic. YMMV. I actually have more problems with the...
... "black-box bianary databall" was never intended to be funny, just descriptive, and I should of course have called it "Mentor's black-box bianary databall"....
Hi Rich, I also suspect, from some other discussion points, that it not only is a "databall" and binary, but it is also encrypted. Regards, Austin ... From:...
Just like to add some details. Since someone else already mentioned this, I will tell you that the reason Mentor went away from ASCII is to protect their...
www.mentor.com/user2user <http://www.mentor.com/user2user> Take a workshop before or after the seminars, Meet and discuss the product direction with Mentor...
Personally, I would like to hear from someone who has used the new DxDesigner. Actually used it. What does someone who has *used* the new DxDesigner think...
... you want to do in extracting or modifying design data. ... That's just my point. You can accomplish anything you want with an assembler too. When you are...
I will try to avoid resurrecting this endless debate, but here's my thought on how you can proceed and still have what you love so much. Just get the ASCII...
Thomas, Don't you get it? What Mentor is really doing is a ... service to us users. See, what Mentor is up to is to focre all of us schematic-jocky types into ...
Hey I am new to DxDesigner.I am using the latest DxDesigner 2007.3 PADS.I was trying to create symbols for different chips.Now the problem is that the symbol...
John, Those of us who have found how productive the direct manipulation of the ASCII files is are very well aware that neither Mentor nor ViewLogic ever...
I too have reverse engineered much of the ASCII format, even getting some help from someone inside Mentor. I find it extremely useful and have built massive...
Hi John, ... Not necessarily. It may be more useful to simply stick with what you have that works for you. Or, if faced with major change, it may be more...
Yes, I agree that it makes sense to evaluate your options and not blindly stay with something. Just be sure to evalute all the impacts, not just the...
John, Now I'm confused by several points. First, what possible "proprietary data" belonging to Mentor could they be hiding that would be visible in the ASCII...
My regrets to the whole user group for yet another annoyingly long post on this long battered topic, but here goes, Well, Rich, I started to write a complete...
I bypass it the shorted pins problem one of two ways I name each pin VDD1 VDD2 VDD3 etc or instead of one two three I use the actual pin number. or I use the...
Hi ckibbey, Not sure what you mean. You can place footprints in PADS with DxD cross-probed...if you select the part(s) in one, it highlights them in the ...
Hi: I need to examine every component of my schematic to make sure each has the required attributes. My code so far is very simple yet ViewDraw cannot seem to...
Hi Kevin, I recommend that you only call DesignComponents once, not twice - it is a very expensive operation. Dim Comps, Comp, CompAttr Dim TotalNumItems Set...
The DxDesigner API is sheet based. You can't go through all of the components in a design at once, you need to go through the design sheet by sheet and look...
John, I see no reason any reasonable person should object to what you've said below. It did'nt really answer my questions, but I was happy to see someone make...
Pre & Les, I've used both those methods and found each to be less than perfect. The best I've come up with is to do as you suggest for setting the pin labels...
I have also used that method when the engineer complained about all the vdd numbers LOL what he could not see did not hurt him ... -- Electrical Designer ...
Kevin, I assume this is because you don't trust the symbol files you are getting from your library? If so, why not just look at the bigger picture and fix-up...
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