Hello all, I am completely new to Dxdesigner 2005.I installed the tool but when i open it to use for schematic creation, I am not abe to use the default ...
Kirby, For as long as I've been using ViewDraw/DxDesigner, (since 1988) each pin has always required a unique pin label and pin number, never a duplicate on a...
HI Rich, I was discussing this topic with people in house and one of the guys showed me his excel spread sheet program that he created years ago. It's a custom...
Hi, When I edit a symbol, and change the DEVICE field, and do an "update" on the schematic page, that field stays unchanged on that instance. Is there a way ...
Austin, You could try going to the instance, click to bring up the attributes dialog box, then scroll down to the "DEVICE" attribute and select it. If it shows...
I know I can export an Allegro netlist from DxDesigner (a *.tel file). Will this netlist include any design constraints I have defined in the schematic? Any...
Is this the equivalent of push polling, attempting to generate doubt in another product (looking at the cadence.com email address)? Mike, I have pushed both...
No hidden agendas here. I'm a Cadence Sales AE. My customer is using a DxDesigner -> Allegro flow and wants to manage all their design constraints in the...
I guess I should start this off by saying we are currently using DxDesigner 2005.1 and would like to stay at this version. I have recently noticed a problem...
I also have found several problems with DXD pdf generator when they first put it out I solved it by immediately installing ADOBE Distiller. That way I directly...
Les, Thank you for your response. I just printed the schematic using my Adobe PDF generator. Unfortunately none of the text is selectable and therefore not...
Hi Keith, That's why you want to use DxPDF. The trick is to use and map the fonts so they work. I don't recall the particulars, but what you describe is a ...
... Not a comprehensive answer or anything, but I bypass this issue by simply setting the horizontal scaling (in the last tab) to 80%. It's not a perfect...
Dave, Did you receive my forum replies to your post? Thanks, Mike Michael Becker, C.I.D. Sales Technical Leader Cadence Design Systems, Inc. Silicon Package...
I am running the partslister from the command line in a script. These are the switches I'm using: partlist <DesignName> -i mypartlist.ini -o mybom.lst I make...
well I have Adobe Acrobat Professional so I can edit text in pdfs I also have openoffice.org (free I refuse to pay that much for both the operating system and...
Hi Les, I understand that is true from normal text documents (like from Word or Excel), but have you output a PDF from DxD with Acrobat PDF Writer and been ...
I have gotten good results by editing my dxpdf.ini file to be like this: disablemappedfonts True font_0 Times New Roman font_2 Times New Roman I keep the file...
What is the best format to display stuff in the schematic? OLE objects always look bad. Whenever I insert an object, either directly or with a link, it comes...
well that is true of hyperlinks but seachablity is no problem On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Austin Franklin ... -- Electrical Designer Smithsonian...
..true for attribute pop-ups as well. ... From: DxDesigner_Users@yahoogroups.com [mailto:DxDesigner_Users@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Les Embrey Sent: Friday,...
I get the Attribute Pop Ups??? and the Hyper links? I map the fonts to True Type Arial, and see no issues. Thanks, Vern Wnek, C.I.D. Manager, PCB Layout, ENG...
I'm not sure if someone else already noted this, but it's critical that the origin of the text or attribute be correct for the output pdf to look reasonable. ...
Hi, I am interested in trying Ivor Bowden suggestion on editing the DxPDF.ini file manually but I can't find where the DxPDF.ini file is located. Currently I...
I find it in the main project directory (level above sch, wir, sym, etc). I expect there is some path searched for it, I don't know. It seems to be touched...
We saw the PDF feature go through several rounds of defects in the 2007 version. Currently we are using 2007.3 Update 9a and it is working except for the font...
Thanks, John, Ivor, We are using PADS 2007 SP1 at the moment. I found the dxpdf.ini file in the main directory but it seems to get created only when you create...
At Agilent, we have 4 paths in the WDIR - user, site, corporation, mentor I put the things used by all of our sites worldwide into the corporation path of the...
Hey, Pads 2005 Serv pac 3 but it says 2 whatever. It seems that PADS body to body check, looks at all layers in order to find part overlaps. In particular it...
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