Hard coded paths in OrCAD

[Anton Erasmus]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 23:49:23 -0800 (PST), silverfox
<dcfrench@gmail.com> wrote:

OrCAD has all these hard coded paths embedded in the design files. I
hired an engineer to do the initial design of a board and he worked
off-site on his own machine. But now that I want to alter the
design, when I work on it on my machine, I get errors relating to the
paths that refer to his file structure. Is there a way around this
problem?

Not much help after the fact, but I have always used subst to subst a
drive letter to the root of my design directory. I typically use drive
letter O:., so all my paths are o:\subdir\file.sch etc. If one wants
to work on another machine or from another drive, one simply deletes
the substitution, and redefine it so that O: again points to the root
of the design files.

Regards
Anton Erasmus

 

[silverfox]

OrCAD has all these hard coded paths embedded in the design files. I
hired an engineer to do the initial design of a board and he worked
off-site on his own machine. But now that I want to alter the
design, when I work on it on my machine, I get errors relating to the
paths that refer to his file structure. Is there a way around this
problem?

 

[qrk]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 23:49:23 -0800 (PST), silverfox
<dcfrench@gmail.com> wrote:

OrCAD has all these hard coded paths embedded in the design files. I
hired an engineer to do the initial design of a board and he worked
off-site on his own machine. But now that I want to alter the
design, when I work on it on my machine, I get errors relating to the
paths that refer to his file structure. Is there a way around this
problem?

Are you talking about Capture or Layout? If Layout, you need to keep
the .MNL file with your design (.MAX file) and do a reload (AutoECO)
of the MNL file when you move the design. It's a good idea to reload
the MNL file just before you think your layout is ready to go. Version
10 Layout has some very scary bugs which alter the net list table in
the MAX file. I've seen this a few times.

Capture doesn't have paths in the data files if you just pass the DSN
OPJ file between you and the other guy.