Bob, In the Annotate dialogue you can select which documents and what within those documents are processed for annotation.
You need to look at the 'Annotation Scope' column and change it to 'selected items'. As for updating the PCB, what happens if you just let it do it? I've seen this before when the component in the PCB is already present, but different to the one being added. I.E. Perhaps in your case R2 already exists, but it is about to be replaced with a new R2 with different pin names. Try running the update once, then a second time, this usually highlights errors due to order of precedence during updates and those that are genuine problems. If you want, I can take a quick look at your design files. Cheers, Jason. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bob Wirka Sent: 17 January 2006 15:12 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]
