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import Altium hierarchical design to OrCAD capture

I am import a Altium hierarchical design to Orcad capture, it completed successfully, but it won't generate netlist. because there are lot of

#1 ERROR(ORCAP-36032): Duplicate Reference Designator U10A: accumCompare, Page1 (6.50, 2.50).

#2 ERROR(ORCAP-36032): Duplicate Reference Designator U10B: accumCompare, Page1 (0.90, 7.20).

on the PCB the designator are U10_1 and U10_2.

I know if annotate the schematic, it will assign the duplicate reference designator with different ones. but how to match it with the PCB.

seems it is a very straight forward problem. because I couldn't see a lot user ask this question one the forums.

do I have to manually update the designator to match that on the PCB?

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0 youndersun over 5 years ago

is there a simple answer to my question? can Orcad 17.4 translate a completed Altuime hierarchical design( both schematic and layout) without too much manual operation?

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0 anovickis over 5 years ago in reply to youndersun

the only method I know is to manually apply the designator names on _each_ branch of the heirarchy in the orcad schematic. You can script this but I don't suggest as the work is for that schematic only, and tcl scripting support in orcad is not virtually non-existant for for trouble you run in to.
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0 youndersun over 5 years ago in reply to anovickis

thank you very much, I am ready to out source the translation to a 3rd party design house, just want to confirm it is not as easy as a click of button, there is an Altium to OrCAD translation guide, it should have mentioned in that that hierarchy is not trivial job.

really appreciate your reply.
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0 youndersun over 5 years ago in reply to anovickis

thank you very much, I am ready to out source the translation to a 3rd party design house, just want to confirm it is not as easy as a click of button, there is an Altium to OrCAD translation guide, it should have mentioned in that that hierarchy is not trivial job.

really appreciate your reply.
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0 luvishis over 5 years ago in reply to youndersun

Elgris Technologies, Inc ( www.elgris.com) can translate ANY Altium schematic to OrCAD Capture with netlist guarantee. Your Altium schematic has complex hierarchy which Elgris can translate too.
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0 youndersun over 5 years ago in reply to luvishis

thank you very much, Elgris is the one we used.
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