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Launching PDF from a link in PDF (Orcad PDF Export)

BK2001

This post is in response to a youtube video posted by Parallel Systems, UK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXQCP3ppmDo

At 2:38 the presenter clicks on a part, then clicks on one of the properties (datasheet link) and it spawns the datasheet pdf.

Does anyone know how to make this work?

I've tried Adobe Acrobat Pro DC, but Link: Auto-Create Weblinks from URLs...  doesn't do it.

Are there other settings?

This looks like something that is very useful!  Should be a customer requirement for the next release!

  • 0 in reply to steve

    Still can't get it to work.  I give up.

    Dear Cadence, this feature is officially a customer requirement especially since the other competitor already has it.

    Please  catch up.

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    Ah, another feature for engineering laziness that can really cause blood to shoot out of my ears.  Like P*DS.

    There's a plugin for Capture CIS on the plugin store.   Point to the part occurrence, click "ctrl-L"  for the data sheet pdf.

    At least CIS has a broken-link fix option with Part Manager "Update Part Status".

    As any CIP admin will tell you, manufacturers do not preserve their URLs.   We have 4000+ Murata MPNs in CIS/CIP and Murata new web features breaks all URLs when they deployed "Sim Surfing"..

    Mouser serves data sheets from their domain for their own sanity.  And, there are engineers who only want to see the latest version of the datasheet pdf.

    May have to deploy a private datasheet http: server to prevent "PDF decay."

  • 0 in reply to BK2001

    What links are you using? mapped network path? UNC? http?

  • 0 in reply to steve

    Hello Steve,

    I tried web address (http) and a mapped network drive( not that I really wanted to use that). (why am i I even trying?)

    I think Cadence should benchmark what Altium's doing because with zero fuss, it just does it.  And not just one link, one for each supplier.

    Sorry I fell into the rabbit hole, but I'm running away from it now.  Until Cadence makes this a feature I'm not messing with it.

    I'm focusing on Documentation Editor now and what fun that there is NO EDITING templates in the PCB Designer version. (BUMMER)

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