Creating Parts

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I am not able to navigate to Component Explorer to create a part using the methodology given in the tutorials. In the tutorials, the "M" hotkey should open Component Explorer but that doesn't work. The tutorials also show browsing to Component Explorer the path, Place > Component Explorer, but at Place, I don't get a Component option (only Part, Wire, Bus, Junction etc.

excellon1 · Answer

Hi. In Orcad CIS it is possible to create new symbols/Parts locally, however these parts will not be in the CIS database. 
 I cant really see your picture so I don't know for sure if you are using the CIS Database or not. To test this open a schematic and on the tool bar click place database part. If CIS is configured you should see a new window pop up with the parts in your database. If this does not work it could be that your database is on a remote PC and you need permissions to access the database or CIS is not configured at all. 
 The more immediate option would be to create symbols/parts locally instead. The easy way is to do this is to open one of the preinstalled capture libraries under your cadence folder and just add a new symbol to it or modify an existing one and save it out. You could also create a new library and create parts from scratch. To do this open capture and choose File > New Library. The library files in capture have a .olb extension when saved and should reside locally on your pc within the folder you saved them to. 
 To add new parts to the database you would need a tool so as to edit the database tables. There is an optional product called CIP which allows adding new parts to the database. There are other methods too if the actual database was based on something like an excel spreadsheet or access database. 
 Probably the first thing would be to determine if the CIS Database is configured or not. 
 Best regards

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