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Converting Orcad schematic to protelDXP scematic

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Charlie Edmondson

Jan 1, 1970
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Dear friends.
How we can convert OrCAD schematic to ProtelDXP schematic?
thankful of you
Not hard at all.

First, you print the Orcad schematic, preferably 'D' size. A BOM will
also be very helpful.

You then open Protel. First, you create parts for all the elements
listed in the BOM. Then, starting in one corner of the printed Orcad
schematic, you place the new Protel part in that position on your new
Protel schematic. Mart the part with a sharpie. Then place the next
part, and connect the two. Repeat until you have all the parts and
connections on your Orcad schematic duplicated in your Protel schematic.

Or, you can go through translation software and import/export nightmares
that take twice as long, and give you more errors...

:cool:

Charlie
 
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Spehro Pefhany

Jan 1, 1970
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Not hard at all.

First, you print the Orcad schematic, preferably 'D' size. A BOM will
also be very helpful.

You then open Protel. First, you create parts for all the elements
listed in the BOM. Then, starting in one corner of the printed Orcad
schematic, you place the new Protel part in that position on your new
Protel schematic. Mart the part with a sharpie. Then place the next
part, and connect the two. Repeat until you have all the parts and
connections on your Orcad schematic duplicated in your Protel schematic.

Or, you can go through translation software and import/export nightmares
that take twice as long, and give you more errors...

:cool:

Charlie

Can't you open Orcad Capture files directly in Protel?



Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
 
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Charlie Edmondson

Jan 1, 1970
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Spehro said:
Can't you open Orcad Capture files directly in Protel?



Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
To be honest, Sphero, I don't know beans about Protel. Asking Derek
over there in support would give you a much better answer... ;-)

I was just replying to all the "Can I take a design in A and open it in
B?" posts...

Charlie
 
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Christopher Ott

Jan 1, 1970
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Spehro Pefhany said:
Can't you open Orcad Capture files directly in Protel?



Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

Don't know about DXP, but 99SE has an option to open OrCAD Capture and
Layout files directly. I've never tried it and therefore have no idea of the
quality of the imported files. Sometimes you end up with a mangled file when
trying to move between different design suites. Also, DXP is several years
old, so you need to look at which version of OrCAD is being used. New OrCAD
files may respond differently than older ones.

Chris
 
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Jim Thompson

Jan 1, 1970
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Not hard at all.

First, you print the Orcad schematic, preferably 'D' size. A BOM will
also be very helpful.

You then open Protel. First, you create parts for all the elements
listed in the BOM. Then, starting in one corner of the printed Orcad
schematic, you place the new Protel part in that position on your new
Protel schematic. Mart the part with a sharpie. Then place the next
part, and connect the two. Repeat until you have all the parts and
connections on your Orcad schematic duplicated in your Protel schematic.

Or, you can go through translation software and import/export nightmares
that take twice as long, and give you more errors...

:cool:

Charlie

I've been reasonably successful pasting in a WMF of a client's
schematic (into PSpice Schematics... natch ;-)

Then "tracing" by plunking down components and wiring them up, then
delete the WMF.

Did that on a fairly large Microchip project.

...Jim Thompson
 
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Brad Velander

Jan 1, 1970
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I have converted several OrCAD schematics to DXP 2004 recently and if
the OrCAD files are not a newer version than the DXP, it works pretty good.
A lot further ahead than the manual methods. You may find as I did that some
(a few) random part symbols don't import into the DXP schematic. This was
very random, with one symbol it read in just fine within one schematic and
then the identical symbol was omitted from the next schematic, go figure.

Simply read the DSN file into DXP via the file open menu and selecting
the proper file type in the bottom drop down window. The one issue or
problem I encountered is that the part parameters (partfields in DXP) are
scattered wide and far across the schematic and need to be moved close(er)
to the actual parts using them. there could be some option that would
control this but I didn't find it and just manually reset the locations of
the partfields once in DXP.
 
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