Did you first reset the unique IDs between the schematic and board? Regards, Steve Smith, C.I.D. Product Engineer
Staco Energy Products Co. Web Site: www.stacoenergy.com & www.stacopower.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bob Wirka > Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 10:12 AM > To: Protel EDA Discussion List > Subject: [PEDA] 6.0 Questions... > > > I've now spent a week with AD6 and, in general, am pleased with the > product. Have some questions, however, and would appreciate any help > offered. > > I've imported a design that was started in 99SE; it's a 6 layer board > with some .8mm bga components. Also have imported my 99SE > libraries and > added them to the project (not as compiled libs). > > My first questions regard annotation and pcb board updating. I've > attached some PNG files to illustrate what's happening. > > A single resistor has been added to the top level schematic. It's > designator is R?, and I want to annotate it and bring it to > the pcb. I'm > unable to just annotate this part; AD6 wants to re-annotate all the > multiple part designators, and I can't seem to stop it. I've > tried the > "Quiet Annotation", checking and un-checking boxes in the annotation > dialog box, but no matter what I do it seems to want to mess with > multiple part items. See "UnwantedAnnotation.png"; I've boxed the > modifications I don't want it to make. > > The second question regards updating the pcb; AD6 tells me > that it cant' > find pins for the resistor, yet it can successfully update the pcb. > Referring to "UnknownPins.png", you see that when the > Validate Changes > button is pushed, it tells me that the pins on the resistor > are unknown. > However, when the Execute Changes button is pushed, all is well; see > "UnknownPinsOk.png". This will probably be a problem when there are > really missing library components. How will you tell the difference > between real and imaginary errors? > > Where am I going wrong? > > Thank you, > > Bob Wirka > Realtime Control Works > ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
