Tom, I am new to DxDatabook. our situration is that the company is transitioning to DxDesigner and DxDataBook and I do not have much idea how the DxDatabook...
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Gary Lameris
garyndayton
Sep 1, 2010 4:03 pm
Are you using Expedition or PADS? Email me at gary_lameris@.... Gary Lameris From: DxDesigner_Users@yahoogroups.com ...
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cadguymark
Sep 1, 2010 4:32 pm
why are you concerned about the outline at all? They do not need your outline to extrude to get a model, the MCAD side should either obtain a model of the part...
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Rich Tanner
rich_tanner
Sep 3, 2010 7:11 pm
Greg, I've had no trouble making great pdf files, including text-searchable pdf files. Now, keep-in-mind, my experience is with DxDesigner (ViewLogic) prior to...
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Vernon Wnek
vmwnek
Sep 3, 2010 8:25 pm
Greg, If you know scripting, try this : Visual Basic Script - adjust as you need to: ' This script is for use with the Broadcom custom DxD menu 'It creates a...
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Rich Tanner
rich_tanner
Sep 6, 2010 3:20 pm
Once you understand the ASCII file system, and it's not hard, then pretty much anything you want to do can be done with simple windows copies and text editors....
7919
ralph850
Sep 13, 2010 1:48 pm
I have some symbols that display pin numbers and others that do not show pin numbers. I have set Display pin numbers to off. I have checked the symbols and...
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kevin shuster
kevin_shuster
Sep 15, 2010 2:43 pm
DX Designer /PCB Designer // PAD person 6 months contract paying 25 to 30 hr Berkeley Heights, NJ Â My Client is look for a person that can develop...
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dtvonly
Sep 20, 2010 8:26 pm
Hi. How do I add a diameter or radius dimension for a circular board?...
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Gary L
garyandjeff
Sep 20, 2010 11:15 pm
I copied this from the Mentor Graphics Communities http://communities.mentor.com/mgcx/message/16639#16639 There are two things you can do, firstly select each...
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ralph850
Sep 21, 2010 2:35 pm
Thanks, but I want to display pin numbers, well actually I want DXD to operate as advertised. Any way I found that if I open the symbols and change something,...
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robertdavies62
Sep 22, 2010 4:09 pm
This is intended bahaviour as the premise of the central library flow is that all PCB information is managed from here. If you want to use an alternate cell...
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Inam
inamh
Sep 28, 2010 2:48 pm
Hello All, I am planning on doing a design using Hierarchy for the first time in DxDesigner 2007.7. Does anyone know where I can find any good examples to get...
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michael_sorensen
michael_sore...
Sep 28, 2010 3:33 pm
Hi Robert, That is basically the explaination I got from the Mentor FAE, but no one could answer me why the Cell Name is not available in the properties window...
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avjohn@...
avjohn01
Sep 28, 2010 3:36 pm
Why don't you added a property to the Central Library or the database you use for DxDatabook (we use DMS) to show the cell name? That's what we do even...
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Gary
glameris
Sep 28, 2010 7:44 pm
Mentor Graphics is bringing its U2U meeting to the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel on October 19. U2U includes technical sessions and product roadmaps for...
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Bryan Truax
brtruax
Sep 28, 2010 10:47 pm
When running a generic netlist, everything runs fine, no errors, several warnings but nothing critical, package files (.net, .ndc, .fdc, .pkg) are generated...
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Gary Lameris
garyndayton
Sep 29, 2010 2:28 pm
Honestly, we don't have much information to work with. What version of the software are you using? What are the warnings? What type of output are you...
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Andrea_bip
atomixit
Sep 29, 2010 2:40 pm
Perhaps, if you add that property to the database you must keep updated the cell field in database if you change it....
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Bryan Truax
brtruax
Sep 29, 2010 2:40 pm
Thanks Gary, I'm using version 2005.1. We are doing 4 schematics. The first 2 worked fine, we had some general warnings - such as single pin nets, etc - but...
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Lameris, Gary
gary_lameris@...
Sep 30, 2010 6:12 pm
Visiting several customers using DxDesigner, about half of the designs I review use hierarchy and the other half are flat designs. DxDesigner is very powerful...
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Les Embrey
l.embrey
Sep 30, 2010 6:12 pm
Need to check what error codes are active Generic is defaults are not the same as Pads or other layout netlists. You may be able to turn off certain ones that...
7935
aoysgelt
Oct 1, 2010 2:32 pm
Hope you are not using "vendor independent flow" (e.g. Allegro is your back-end). Mentor broke schematic sharing in 2007 for that flow and, so far, have no...
7936
aoysgelt
Oct 1, 2010 2:39 pm
DxDesigner 2007 vendor independent flow does not support schematic sharing (one has to "import" schematics - can't have "shared" schematic libraries). Mentor...
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avjohn@...
avjohn01
Oct 1, 2010 2:51 pm
I'm not sure what "schematic sharing" is. Can you define it? ... Tony John 319-295-1888 Senior EDA Applications Engineer Enterprise Tool...
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Andrea_bip
atomixit
Oct 1, 2010 3:31 pm
I'm a 2005.1 user, please can you explain better what you mean ?...
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Lameris, Gary
gary_lameris@...
Oct 1, 2010 5:26 pm
After followup with the poster for clarification... At Mentor the term is formal "logical ReUse" where a section of schematic circuitry is specified as Golden...
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michael_sorensen
michael_sore...
Oct 2, 2010 6:14 am
Hi Tony, Thanks for your response. This is exactly how I ended up having to do it. I added a user defined property called "Footprint" and drive DxDesigner...
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aoysgelt
Oct 2, 2010 3:10 pm
My opinion is that anything but trivial design reuse is not working in 2007 other than in Expedition flow (which I have not tried since we use Allegro)....
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avjohn@...
avjohn01
Oct 4, 2010 1:33 pm
Michael, We use Zuken CR-5000 for PCB layout. The PCB designers put in the alternate footprint if one is needed. There's no way to specify that from the...
