Ian,
When I use the 'Update schematics' or 'Show differences' functions I can select to update the net connections in the schematics but when I choose 'create ECO' it is empty. There is no indication as to why this is.
It can detect the differences between the nets but it can't push the changes back to the Sch. I am not sure if this is mentioned in the help and pdfs, but I am pretty sure that no connectivity related stuff is back-annotated into the Sch from the PCB. I could be wrong though. You really would get a more definitive official answer elsewhere though.
Show Differences should detect the differences in the net connections - this is to be expected. But the system should warn if it can't do something and requires manual editing to re-synch the Sch and PCB.
It sure is irritating when something creates the impression it will do something and then does nothing. The more a program has "things you just need to know" the harder it is to learn. I remember years ago being thrown in the deep end and having to take on the role of driving this brand new PCAD (dos) CAD system as the bloke doing the CAD had left. I new bugger-all about CAD at the time and was pretty green behind the ears. I felt like I was wallowing for quite some time. I never could understand what the rationale behind defined pad-stacks and only being able to use something from the pad-stack library - seemed just so crazy to me it took ages to gel. Now there is so much stuff that I guess I just know that it is hard for me to figure out what others don't know. I am almost certainly going to be looking over the shoulders of one or two people who have been using P99SE for quite some time as they start on P2004. I will be very interested to see what they stumble on.
My basic problem is that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. The trial and error approach seems to have run me into some uncorrectable errors. What is the best way for a new CAD user to get up to speed with DXP?
Dunno. I can't answer that. Monitor the traffic on the DXP Forum maybe. Read all the PDF documents that came with the application and that are added to the web site. Monitor the Protel Knowledge Base. Ask questions - but if you want answers from vast bulk of people using DXP and P2004 you will probably get a better success rate elsewhere. I doubt I would be the only one chiming in on this problem if you had asked on the DXP Forum. If I remember correctly it took quite some time before I had a crack at your post.
Some of the schematics were imported from Orcad but there is no requirement to export from DXP back there. I have sent you the project files which should help define the Sch-PCB inconsistencies.
Haven't received anything yet.
My configuration is DXP(2002) with SP2. I see there is a pre-release version of SP3 available but I don't think this will help my current issues.
SP3 was never released (only ever a pre-release). P2004 was released instead, and includes the SP3 fixes (well it is supposed to, I have never tallied them all up). All registered users of DXP should have received P2004 at no cost. If you haven't ask your sales office.
Just to compound the problems I am now getting 'Exception ElistError in module IntegratedLibrary.DLL' and 'Access Violation' error messages. Is there any cure for these?
This thread discusses the problem: http://forums.altium.com/cgi-bin/showthread.asp?id=30156&list=dxp
I don't know if Altium ever replied with the answer, though. Like this thread discusses, the usual suggestion with files that are causing problems is to send them off to Altium. Have you tried under P2004?
Ian
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