The files that your project is complaining about were probably not kept in their original relative folder locations when the project was sent to you. The project file keeps pointers to all the associated document locations when they are saved. If your customer moved files around from folder-to-folder or changed folder names to send them to you, there is no way for the project document to find them automatically. If they are present in the files you got, you can put the documents back into the project by right clicking on the project name in the 'Projects' tab, and then using "Add Existing to Project".
As for your specific questions:
1) Open the "Projects" tab, right click on the project name, select "Open Project Documents". That will open all the documents that the project file knows about and can find. If there are too many documents for a single tab across the workspace, a compressed tab will appear that says something like '(x) yyyyy.schdoc". Click on that compressed tab and a menu will drop down for you to select the page you want to look at.
2) With the top sheet of the schematic open, go to Project>Compile Document. That will run a check on the schematic against the design rules. The results will be under the "Messages" tab. Double click on the error messages and it will take you directly to the trouble spot in the schematic. Some of the messages will just be warnings to check and be sure you really want to do what you have done - they aren't show stoppers, they're just cautionary. Show stoppers will be obvious errors instead of just warnings.
3) Go to http://www.altium.com/downloads/2004_outputters.asp after you have installed SP2 as I suggested above. Download the specific netlister for your needs, and install the .dll file to the Altium2004 system directory. You can then output a netlist specifically for PCAD from the menu Design>Netlist for Project (or Netlist for Document).
4) See (2)
5) Install SP2, your output files will then appear in a 'Project Outputs' folder under the main project folder. If I remember correctly, in the version of DXP2004 you are trying to use, the output went by default to the Windows Document folder for the user.
6) A project is a collection of all the documents - schematics, layout files, reference documents, netlists, reports, etc. A design is the individual layout document or schematic document within the project.
At 01:51 PM 4/18/05, you wrote:
Background: I was sent a set of files to open and make into a PCB. They are DXP 2004 vintage. I open DXP 2004 (Build 8.0.4.1272) and look for a schematic. There are a bunch of SCHDOC files, a DOT file, and a PrjPcb file. I open the PrjPcb file and there are 3 errors: 1) a SchLib could not be found even though it is listed among the files, 2) and IntLib could not be found but didn't exist in the files, and 3) A SchDoc could not be found but didn't exist in the file. It said all 3 were removed from the project. OK, a bunch of files come up. Looks pretty much like a set of schematic sheets.
Questions:
1) How do I open all schematic sheets so I can easily browse through them without having to open them one at a time?
2) How do I run DRC on the schematic?
3) What is the best Netlist format to export to P-CAD 2002. In the past I was using the *.alt file format (Master Designer?) from 99SE, but that does not appear to be available any more.
4) Do I need to compile this and if so how?
5) When I choose any of the .prj file or .SchDoc files I can do Design => Netlist For Project. I then select the Tango format. When I do this is seems to go through all the sheets, and then... The DXP closes altogether. There does not appear to be any netlist file generated, in the directory or referenced in the project when I try to open it up.
6) What is the difference between a project and a design?
Jeff
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