The workaround, if one wants to preserve the footprints of PCB components, is to edit the schematic to match the PCB. This can be quickly done from the PCB editor by using Design/Update Schematic with Update Component Footprints checked. Try it, you'll like it. There is no longer any excuse not to have schematic footprints match PCB footprints.
OK, But what would you do if you are doing a new board and the schematic was imported from Orcad and none of the footprint names matched the ones in the library you want to use. Again what I saw was that it woul donly put down the first footprint on the list and untill you touched ALL of the different types of symbols to global update the footprints you still would not get your library footprints. At least without quite a bit of effort. Yes once youve got a footprint on a board you can change it. But in this case I really don't have any yet till the schematic says I do an dth eonly way I saw to get there was to touch all the diff. symbols and globally update their individual footprints. Bob Robert M. Wolfe, C.I.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Abd ul-Rahman Lomax" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 10:57 AM Subject: Re: [PEDA] multi sheet problems > At 07:02 PM 12/26/2001 -0500, Bob Wolfe wrote: > >An one more note. > >Not only does it ONLY put down the first footprint on the list, > >but any time during a sync, if you do want to update footprints > >it will replace any footprint other than the first one on the list > >with the first one on the list even if locked. Which in my mind > >why bother having a lisy of footprints if it realy only uses the first one > >on the list. I am using 99SE SP6. > >Is there any way around that? > > Someone correct me if there is still a bug in this area of the program, but > the above seems a bit off to me. The list is a device to assist the user in > choosing a footprint. By default, the first footprint in the list will > appear in the symbol footprint selection field. If you choose another > footprint, or manually enter a completely different footprint, that is the > footprint that will be used. (Of course, if one cancels out of the symbol > edit dialog, any changes will be discarded.) > > I just verified the behavior of P99SP6, it seems to be working correctly. > > Strictly speaking, footprints are not locked, rather components are locked. > In general, you can still edit locked components through an edit dialog, > and update is simply a mass edit. In my view, the unchallenged editability > of locked components is a deficiency or bug; if the user attempts to edit > any locked component, whether singly or en masse, such as through a global > edit or update, a warning should be issued that requires the user to > approve the edit before it is implemented. "Locked" should mean locked; > locking a component should lock every primitive except refdes and type, and > those should be individually or globally lockable by editing the string > itself. I'd require the user to actually unlock the components but I think > a warning is sufficient as a compromise for ease of use, similar to the way > block moves work. > > The workaround, if one wants to preserve the footprints of PCB components, > is to edit the schematic to match the PCB. This can be quickly done from > the PCB editor by using Design/Update Schematic with Update Component > Footprints checked. Try it, you'll like it. There is no longer any excuse > not to have schematic footprints match PCB footprints. > > (Protel cut corners by using the same basic process to update schematic > from PCB as it uses to update PCB from schematic. No harm done, but you may > notice some oddities, such as an attempt to add components to the schematic > followed by a message that the macro is not supported. Footprint update > works fine and I presume -- I did not test -- that changed comments and > reference designators will be properly taken back to schematic as well, the > latter requiring that schematic and PCB have been properly synchronized > with the hidden identifiers prior to editing the reference designators.) > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Abdulrahman Lomax > Easthampton, Massachusetts USA > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/proteledaforum@techservinc.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
