Problem in sending a netlist in powerlogic to PowerPCB

[iLCjojo]

Hello All,

I am a newbie for this software tool. This is my first assignment
for this kind of job at work. I am looking for guidances/helps from
"Friends/Experts " in this forum. I have learnt to use this tool by reading Innoveda manuals.

My problem is that I obtained only a few parts in PowerPCB when I sent a schematic created in PowerLogic using "Netlist to PCB" function.
Both software are version 4.0.

Thanks a lot.

iLCjojo

[mdldesign]

There should be an error file located in your working directory (something.err) which will tell you which parts could not be found. I expect you do not have the parts and/or footprints made for all the symbols used on your schematic.

Mark

[iLCjojo]

Hello Mark:

You are right in mentioning error message in somthing.err file.

I got the message like this in ascii.err - notepad, "Can't find part decal item <S08-150>", and in eco.err file,"fail to get Res-1/4W from library".

What make me so confused is that why only a few, say two inductors and BNC connectors, were moved to PowerPCB while the remainder of the schematic ( IC, R,C...)were not. I created a schematic using company library where all parts were already created and saved for whole company.

I suspect that I miss some thing in my directory path so that PowerPCB can't read data sent from Powerlogic.
OK, it is like this:
-I had path like this set up in both PowerLogic and PowerPCB.ini files:
-FileDir = C:\projects\ee3001\
-CAMDir=C:\projects\ee301\cam

-I created a schematic and saved it in
- \projects\ee3001\ee3001.sch - powerlogic

-I sent this schematic to powerPCB by using send netlist command. First, in PCB, I opened file ee3001 where it already had a board layout saved in it (a template). I then executed the command.
\projects\ee3001\ee3001.pcb - powerPCB.

Hope you can help with this info.

Thanks a lot.

iLCjojo

[mdldesign]

You set the library path for PADS using the File/Library... command, and adding your library to the "List". This is the only way I know of to setup PADS (both Logic and PowerPCB) with the correct libraries.

Mark

[iLCjojo]

Hello Mark,

You are right. I looked in the library and found out why PowerPCB could read the library from PowerLogic.

Thank You very much for your help.

iLCjojo