Hello All,
Does anyone have a utility or know of something in Protel PCB that can
detect if a netlist has more than one of the same netnames embedded in the
list. I try to inspect netlist manually, however I just recently designed
a board that got thru with two nets with the same name. Of
How about MOVs (Metal oxide varistors)?
I have the footprint field for one schematic part set up as so:
MOV __mm __V Joyin disc
The first __ is replaced with 07,10,20 etc the second __ is replaced with
20,50,130,275 etc...
Lots more than 4 footprints (even more if you count different manufactu
I had what I thought was a great idea, now not so sure...
I did a screen cap off a power ic data sheet pdf
it showed the pinout and a lot of the inner workings, i.e., catch
diodes, transistor H bridge
it also had all the nice descriptive pin names
I massaged the image and put it into a new sch l
Hello Richard,
I have had this problem once before and found that one of my footprints
(SOT23) was corrupted so after updating this footprint all was okay.
You ask how I found this?
I suggest you first check your library ddb and run a database compact and
repair as I found my library with the
i think i have a solution
first i moved the .bmp file to the directory holding the lib DDB
then i edited the image and stripped the path from the file name
sure enough on the next session start up the image was lost and "error
xxx.bmp not found"
no path!, good
then i imported the bmp into the DDB
At 02:06 PM 7/19/01 -0400, Jeff Adolphs wrote:
>Do you have any problems with Data Base Files crashing? I was thinking
>maybe the reason I had a data base corrupt was because I was using the
>Windows File System. I want to use which ever is more stable.
It is not clear to me that either system is
> -Original Message-
> From: Frank Gilley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, 20 July 2001 03:08
snip
> I have often fantasized about repairing a DDB by opening it
> with MS Access
> and re-saving it, but I don't know what the password is these
> days. (Anyone?)
It has
