Re: xDX Designer - Grid Spacing for Text Comments
There is only one grid in xDX Designer so you cannot set a separate grid for text, but it is simple to change the setting during your work from the Grid Toolbar enabling you to change the grid whilst...
View ArticleRe: Packaging Error
Hi,There is an idea D2245 Add ability to replace a part on a schematic with a new part using DxDataBook that is tackling this issue. So please support this idea, Hope this helps Matija
View ArticleRe: Sometimes PADS logic sends through "random" clearance rules during an ECO...
I have come across this issue again in another design and looked deeper into it. It seems random nets are being grouped together in temporary netlist files that are generated during the eco. The two...
View ArticleAutomatically transfer decal from Land Pattern Creator to integrated central...
How to automatically transfer part from Land Pattern Creator to integrated central library in PADS Standard Plus? I try PADS Standard Plus > Data and Library Management > xDM Land Patterns...
View ArticleRe: Packaging Error
This error is due to the fixed properties expected in the Part Database (PDB) used by Packager, it works on a triplet of Part Number, Part Name and Part Label. if you replace one part with another from...
View ArticleRe: Guidance on RipperSignalInfo
What are your settings for this in Setup - Settings - Advanced? Look at the following two, Show Ripper Indexes and Use Full Bus Name on Rippers. The symptoms indicate that either one of these has been...
View ArticleRe: Routing signals through a junction slot
Hi Simon, Thank you for the input. I have created SR 2732099104. John
View ArticleSettings > Display (category)">Re: I cannot see "Xref Annotation" option in Setup > Settings > Display...
What version? Xref Annotations were first introduced in EE7.9.4 (PADS 9.5). TechNote mg579748 is a webinar on setting them up & how they work.
View ArticleRe: Updating xDx Databook
Thanks Gary, but I think I have a more fundamental problem. I don’t have any starter library parts. (I did not do the original installation.) When start from the starter library link in the splash...
View ArticleRe: Replace symbol for a harness connector
Hi Andrew, Did you add the (new) symbol library to your VeSys style set?VeSys > Edit > Style > Style Sets... > Harness > Design > General Settings > Library Sets > * Libraries...
View ArticleCircuit Move and Copy in EE7.9.5
Why is it that when a user tries to copy a fanout from one design to another, only the common nets (DGND) copy over?
View ArticleSettings > Display (category)">Re: I cannot see "Xref Annotation" option in Setup > Settings > Display...
Hi Shannonk,My xdx designer version is VX1.1 . I could not find any option called Xref Annotation. Your support is highly appreciated.
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Settings > Display (category)">Re: I cannot see "Xref Annotation" option in Setup > Settings > Display...
Xref Annotation refers to the display of the cross reference values and these are made visible from the option - Setup - Settings - Display - Xref Annotation. To create the actual cross references you...
View ArticleRe: MC conductor lengths
I have fought this issue before as well and it is because vesys is trying to keep all of those wires together and thus cannot calculate a route for them all together. You can only break up a multicore...
View ArticleRe: USB Dongle Occasionally not detected
Guy, Just saw this, and basically I have had this problem "ALWAYS", been thru a number of computers, and thru every release of PADSsince I started using PADS back around just before ver 9.X. I have...
View ArticleCheck Layout cell data against Library
Hi, Is there an existing report or script that can use to check the date of cell used in the layout against the date of the cell in the library. We are looking for a way to generate a report to list...
View ArticleSelective solder mask for parts
Looking for input into the following dilemma that we are facing. I have a pwb with several areas that need to have solder mask and several areas that do not need solder mask. This is easy.Here's the...
View ArticleReport Builder and Diagram #
Can anyone confirm that with the new Report builder in 2014 that it is still not possible to create a report that simple has the connector and the sheet index in a schematic?
View ArticleIntegrity check errors and warnings
When running the integrity check in PADS Logic, I get the following: Error: Decal PIN has different number of terminals on sheets: <1>(0) <2>(1)Warning: Try to use Change Part operation to...
View ArticleNo license was found for feature viewdraw
I was using DxDesigner + PADS Layout v9.5 in the past and recently upgrading the license to PADS VX1.1. I did not install the new software yet because I want to finish up the current design before...
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