PADS PCB Compare Utility woes

[Alan Bradshaw]

hi all, can anybody help me out here?

I need to create documentation to show what got changed between issue levels of PCBs.

I thought I might be able to use the Compare utility, but I seem to be having some problems reading the ASCII files into the program.

I output the ASCII files from PADS, but when I try to read them into the utility, I get an error on the second line of data saying that 'PARAMETERS' is not a valid floating point value. Then it stops opening the file.

What format do I choose to create the ASCII files to avoid this problem?

Is there any other intermediate stage I need to go through?

Thanks

Alan

[varora]

Try running "I" for Database Integrity Test.

[Alan Bradshaw]

OK, I tried that, but I don't see the relevance.

The message I got was that there were no database integrity problems found.

[Alan Bradshaw]

It's OK,

I found out where I went wrong. When creating the ASCII file I only need to add parts to the file, and ignore everything else.

Thanks for looking

Alan