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Inheriting CIS configuration (.INI) files from previous versions?

Ulf K

I recently had to reinstall several versions of OrCAD Professional due to a hardware malfunction.

It took some time...

Is there a "Best practices" on how to copy/transfer the CIS-configuration from a previous OrCAD version into a new release?

I guess that simply copying the .INI-file is not a recommended way. The ideal way would be some sort of configurator

utility that says "Found CIS configuration in version xx.y - Do you want to copy CIS settings to 25.1". Iguess that would

be to much work but at least to gather the search patterns, the library footprint viewer in the CIS canvas, etc under

a common headline so that copy-paste could be made on a manual basis.

The same question applies also to the PCB editor environment but in my case, there were fewer settings that needed

to be modified.

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  • Jeet
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    Ulf,

    Where were your files present was it present locally on your system or on sever and what level of permissions do you have to access the CIS Database? Additionally, what type of database is the CIS Database?

  • Ulf K
    0 in reply to Jeet

    The 25.1 installation is local (where I am administrator) on my workstation.

    The CIS database resides in a server (where I am administrator) with full rights.

    Disks are mapped in the windows environment. Both CIS database and all libraries

    (.OLB, .PSM, .DRA, etc. etc) resides in that server.

    The database is a Microsoft Access type, used and maintained for many years by myself being adminstrator.

  • Jeet
    0 in reply to Ulf K

    Thanks for providing insights, If libraries and database(.DBC) is present on the server, users can browse the Database configuration file (.DBC) in OrCAD Capture easily they need to setup the ODBC Driver.

  • Ulf K
    0 in reply to Jeet

    If the .DBC-file lists all configuration settings, that would be fine. But I am also wondering about the library, footprint viewer, search paths that are listed in the .INI-file. If limited to a few paths that would be easy, but not if there are many paths and libraries configured.

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  • Ulf K
    0 in reply to Jeet

    If the .DBC-file lists all configuration settings, that would be fine. But I am also wondering about the library, footprint viewer, search paths that are listed in the .INI-file. If limited to a few paths that would be easy, but not if there are many paths and libraries configured.

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  • Jeet
    0 in reply to Ulf K

    Yes settings are stored in the 'capture.ini' file. I would recommend you to organize your folders by keeping footprints(.dra) in a single folder and libraries(.OLB) in another folder. 

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