At 10:03 AM 2/13/2002 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >My PCB is placed and routed manually, the disignators are very different >from its schematic. > >Is there any method to change the disignators in the schematic so that >schematic drawing could match the PCB? >Posted from Association web site by: Jun Gong
We are seeing more of these posts, from the Techserv site (which is not really an association site, it belongs to Techserv, but that's another story....). It leaves us with the question as to whether or not we should reply on-list or off-list or both. To cc the individual is extra work, Techserv is not set up so that the original poster's email address is transferred to a header that causes automatic inclusion in reply, as far as I can tell. In this case, the visitor did not give us his e-mail, so presumably he will read response(s) from the web site. I'd recommend that he join the list, he'll get all the responses when they are made, and he will also see other posts. If I were learning Protel, I'd want to read this list, not just the answers to my own questions. I've been using Protel for a few years and I'm even considered an expert user (I'm not, in my opinion, but I just keep learning and I can write), and I still learn a lot. As to the question, if the Schematic and PCB were matched at one time, it *might* be possible to use Update PCB in Schematic or Update Schematic from PCB to recover from renumbering. I'd copy the database and try it both ways. But there is a very good possibility that this won't work, because of the history of the files. So to re-synchronize them will normally be a manual job. Pick one, edit the other to match. We have talked about the possibility of a resynchronizer that would analyze connectivity and re-establish the links, but we don't have such an animal yet. Nevertheless, there *is* a netlist comparison tool in Schematic (it's under Reports) that will assist in the job, especially when you get close to being done. I'd start out by creating a net list from one or the other, then using it to identify reference designators on the other file. As I did this, I would edit them so that they correspond. Start with some unique part that you can easily identify. The more pins it has the better, unless they might have been exchanged (as with an FPGA, perhaps). [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/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
