John,
Over my period of using P99SE I have had the synchronizer mess up any
number of times. I always fixed this by exporting an ASCII version of the PCB
file and then re-importing it to the DDB. This would clear all the unique
identifiers and the first time you synchronized afterward you would match by
designators. Would work just fine afterwards.
Sincerely,
Brad Velander
Senior PCB Designer
Northern Airborne Technology
1925 Kirschner Rd.,
Kelowna, BC, V1Y 4N7.
tel (250) 763-2329 ext. 225
fax (250) 762-3374
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Elson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: June 16, 2005 11:26 AM
To: Protel EDA Discussion List
Subject: Re: [PEDA] footprint and part names
Leo Potjewijd wrote:
> At 16-6-2005 09:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> I have 99SE and sp6 and have had problems with a design containing parts
>> over 14 characters and spaces, BUT, I couldn't tie it down to these
>> parts
>> being the cause of my problems, maybe it's a case of "if it ain't broke,
>> don't fix it".
>
>
> I think this is the best advice.....
> The problem is sort of intermittant: yesterday the synchroniser worked
> once every session (the first time), today it is a bit of pot luck:
> sometimes it works straight away, sometimes I need to say 'Ignore'
> quite a few times...... Simply deleting the .cfg and .raf files seems
> to help a bit, too.
>
My experience has been that once the synchronizer has messed up, it is
best to NEVER
use the synchronizer again on that project. You create a netlist and
load the netlist.
The only downside to this procedure, other than a couple of extra
clicks, is that it
may wipe the net assignment of split planes. Generally, that is not too
hard to
rebuild. If you forget and use the synchronizer again, it will often
rename a WHOLE bunch
of PCB components to the wrong component designator, or something nasty like
that.
Jon
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