On 09:45 AM 28/06/2001 +1000, van de Werken, Matthew (DEM, PH) said:
>Hi folks:
>
>I have a whole bunch of boards in a couple of ddb's, which I'd like to know
>the sync status of. These boards were done by a couple of different
>engineers about the place, some of which aren't as diligent as others in
>leaving the design in a synchronised state (ie, the pcb matching the
>schematic).
>
>Is there a quick way of checking the state, without actually doing the
>synchronisation? I have around a hundred or so boards to check in 3 ddb's,
>so I'd really like this to be quick. I HATE doing the same thing over and
>over (and I also HATE fixing other people's mess, but anyway...).
>
>Cheers,
>Matthew van de Werken
I can't think of any automated method. You may be able to use a client
basic macro(s) to help automate some of the repetitive stuff but even then
I think you will find a lot of hand operations.
You might be able to use the export to spread functions of both the PCB and
SCH to allow you do to all the exports and then use macros in Excel to
compare. You might be able to get adequate comparison between netlists
generated by both Sch and PCB. but I suspect the best test of synch will
be using the synchroniser and checking the macros that it creates to look
for errors.
Looks to me like a slow painful manual job - maybe with a few Client basic
macros attached to function keys to speed things up.
I know what you mean about maintaining others stuff - I am doing with some
code at the moment, in Delphi (yuk!), written with global variables across
many different files (double yuk!), with no concept of OO (triple yuk!) and
some truly amateurish coding (yuk^4). Don't you hate this sort of
pick-up-after-others work.
Good luck,
Ian
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