Error [ALG0065] Illegal character in \

 Anand,

 In Capture CIS, it won't allow special characters like \ ? ;  Remove such characters and try again.

 HTH

 Is there a way to find these special characters (like \?; etc) are in which part/device? As we are  trying to modify an exisitng design ( it has ~ 4000 + component counts from multiple orcad libraries) which was initially done by some TBD design house/s.

 Also which are the part properties / user properties (like description, Value, PCB Footprint, Partnumber etc etc) we should look for these special characters

Stick to strings containing A-Z, 0-9 and underscore, those are unconditionally safe.

Extract the Design Cache to a library on a legal path, not containing any special characters, and Replace the parts in the Cache with parts from this library.

The PCB Editor netlister combines multiple properties in the schematic to generate unique references in the netlist, these need to contain permitted characters.

Hello,

Sorry for replying to an old post but it seems to be related to my question.

I receive Capture 16.6 schematics with illegal characters in the 'graphic' fields, so when trying to generate a netlist for Allegro get these errors (one example, there are many more for all the components in the design):

#1 Error [ALG0065] Illegal character in \c (6.8nf) 10% 2000v 1812.normal\.

I think the way to fix it is to create a new library part without illegal characters in the name (ie. graphic field) and then do a replace cache with the new parts, as described by oldmouldy above.

But this is quite tedious to do for the whole design, and also whenever I receive an update to the design. Would there be any way of automating this process?

Any suggestions highly appreciated.

In 17.2 and higher you may try to export the .DSN to XML, remove the illegal characters with text editor, and then import the XML back to .DSN. It worked for me but not sure if you can do it with16.6