What's Good About Capture’s Placement Report? Look to SPB16.5 and See!

The 16.5 release of OrCAD Capture includes the ability to generate a report with X and Y locations of the placements of the parts on a schematic.

During the process of schematic validation or testing, you may need to know the co-ordinates of each part that has been placed in the schematic. You can now generate a report with X and Y locations of the placements of the parts on a schematic. This report is generated as a .CSV file which provides the following details of the parts:

• Reference designator
• Part name
• Schematic name
• Sheet number
• File system location of the part library
• X co-ordinate location
• Y co-ordinate location

Read on for more details …

To accomplish this in OrCAD Capture execute the following steps -

1. Select Project Manager> highlight .dsn> Tools> Export Placement (as shown below):


  
2. Microsoft Excel will automatically open showing more details about each part:

   

Here’s a screenshot of the Property Editor showing the matching co-ordinates of parts with the above screenshot:

I look forward to your feedback.

Jerry "GenPart" Grzenia