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Editing Components on the fly

carl carley
carl carley over 2 years ago

I have only the .brd design and need to modify a footprint. I have file>export libraries with just package symbols on and exported to a scratch folder. I can edit the .psm and all is fine. I am struggling to be able to select this from place>update symbols. How do i point to the modified symbol and import this?

best regards

carl

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  • DavidJHutchins
    0 DavidJHutchins over 2 years ago in reply to carl carley

    You need to edit the *.txt ASCII files for the specific device files for the components you want changed to the 0402 package symbols

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  • carl carley
    0 carl carley over 2 years ago in reply to DavidJHutchins

    when i import the netlist.txt i get all sorts of errors, a sample shown below

    how does the netlist import known about the symbols folder? i saved the netlist.txt in the main project folder and the symbols folder but still lots of errors

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