creating schematic diffs

Does anyone have a suggestion for creating diffs with ORCAD schematic.
ORCAD itself doesn't support such a thing but I was wondering whether I
can create PDF's or something simillar and have a graphics tool
highlight the differences.

I know that I could ECO and look at the changes but I am looking for
more of a management/presentation solution so that I can go to a
meeting and show the differences on a projector.

Any ideas?

Colin

 

[Hal Murray]

Does anyone have a suggestion for creating diffs with ORCAD schematic.
ORCAD itself doesn't support such a thing but I was wondering whether I
can create PDF's or something simillar and have a graphics tool
highlight the differences.

Acrobat has a command to diff 2 PDF files. The for-pay version,
not the free one. It puts the pages up side by side with yellow
boxes overlaying the parts that are different. Works OK as long
as your recipe for making PDFs doesn't change. In particular
you have to keep the page size the same, including borders.

That's from non-current memory. I haven't used it for a while.
Worked great when I wanted it. I was trying to find all the
changes, not show anything to management.

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[Robert Baer]

Mac wrote:

On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 01:53:44 -0800, colin_toogood wrote:

Does anyone have a suggestion for creating diffs with ORCAD schematic.
ORCAD itself doesn't support such a thing but I was wondering whether I
can create PDF's or something simillar and have a graphics tool
highlight the differences.

I know that I could ECO and look at the changes but I am looking for
more of a management/presentation solution so that I can go to a
meeting and show the differences on a projector.

Any ideas?

Colin

I can't help you with your problem. But I did right a netlist comparator
once. If you are interested I could send it to you or post it somewhere or
whatever.

--Mac

Maybe you could left one instead?

 

[Mac]

On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 01:53:44 -0800, colin_toogood wrote:

Does anyone have a suggestion for creating diffs with ORCAD schematic.
ORCAD itself doesn't support such a thing but I was wondering whether I
can create PDF's or something simillar and have a graphics tool
highlight the differences.

I know that I could ECO and look at the changes but I am looking for
more of a management/presentation solution so that I can go to a
meeting and show the differences on a projector.

Any ideas?

Colin

I can't help you with your problem. But I did right a netlist comparator
once. If you are interested I could send it to you or post it somewhere or
whatever.

--Mac

 

[Mac]

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 08:11:58 +0000, Robert Baer wrote:

Mac wrote:

On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 01:53:44 -0800, colin_toogood wrote:

Does anyone have a suggestion for creating diffs with ORCAD schematic.
ORCAD itself doesn't support such a thing but I was wondering whether I
can create PDF's or something simillar and have a graphics tool
highlight the differences.

I know that I could ECO and look at the changes but I am looking for
more of a management/presentation solution so that I can go to a
meeting and show the differences on a projector.

Any ideas?

Colin

I can't help you with your problem. But I did right a netlist comparator
once. If you are interested I could send it to you or post it somewhere or
whatever.

--Mac

Maybe you could left one instead?

Oops. OCIM "write."

--Mac