Even better... Zoom out a lot, then Select all (using the shortcut keys s-a), then grab something visible and drag it, Protel will draw a box around the limits of everything that exists on your board (assuming you have a reasonable amount of things there), including everything that is off the visible screen. Drag until the whole box is on the visible screen.
This way you can actually see if there was anything there or not and recover it back onto your normal board space, confirming if this was indeed the problem. You may want to reset your origin after doing this of course since you just moved everything... But likely this won't find anything if you've done the delete thing suggested by Darcy and Brad already, but a handy trick to get things back without deleting them, so thought it was worth sharing :) Cheers, Dave S. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Darcy Davis Sent: Wednesday, 30 November 2005 4:20 p.m. To: PEDA (E-mail) Subject: RE: [PEDA] Components not transferring to PCB Hey Michael, Not to kick a dead horse, but did you catch the second paragraph in Brad's email? The reason I ask is that the problem you describe is a dead ringer for a common problem with P99se. What happens is that P99 will let you inadverdantly move a component outside of the screen area (if you happen to have it selected when you try to move another component). When this happens, it doesn't show the net connections etc, and it won't update properly. So, if you do as Brad says and select all (SA), then deselect inside area (to deselect the parts you want to keep), and then ctrl-delete to remove the [still selected] offending components. This will delete the components that are off the page, allowing you to re-update the PCB and get them added again. Forgive me if you've already done this already, but you didn't mention trying this, and the symptoms are so close to this problem... Darcy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robison, Michael R NAVSEA Sent: November 30, 2005 7:27 AM To: Protel EDA Discussion List Subject: RE: [PEDA] Components not transferring to PCB Again, thank you for your suggestions, Peter and Brad. Things are not looking good. The relay footprint is a circular pattern, and it's centered around the (0,0) origin. I have a much earlier PCB, before I entered the many changes, that has the relays on the board, along with several other components that I now realize are missing in the new PCB. I made a copy of it and tried to update it, but the changes were so many (renamed components, etc.), that it ended up with macros that it would not complete. It could no longer get to the new from the old. I believe that I'm dealing with some type of file corruption now, but I can't put my finger on exactly what it is. I noticed yesterday that I had lost the power and ground plane assignment to the PCB, and there were no nets available in the dropdown to select from. Big flag on the play, there. A computer restart fixed that, but nothing else. >From the PCB, I generated a footprint library and it has all the footprints (including the ones that are not visible on the PCB). I'm thinking about moving my files to another computer and see if the problem follows, using that to isolate between problems with the Protel application itself and my DDB files. Thanks again, Michael ____________________________________________________________ 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] ____________________________________________________________ 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] ____________________________________________________________ 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]
