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Library not existing when downloading external symbols

jritter
jritter 5 days ago

Hi all,

after a short pause of designing PCBs I wanted to do a schematic,

now I try to import a Symbol/Footprint from any external source with the help of the integrated Component Explorer and its plugin to Samacsys and Ultra Librarian.

For both the following error occurs neglecting which component I want to integrate.

ERROR(ORCAP-2472): Failed to place symbol instance for model 'AD7314ARMZ' because library '' does not exist.

Even the try to include a new library does give a solution. After upgrading to 25.1 it is not working either. 

After modifying the capture.ini to 

[Part Selector Configured Libraries]
Dir0=C:\Users\julian ritter\Documents\Cadence_Workspace\LIBRARY1.olb
Number of Configured Libraries=1

the same error occurs. 

Is there any solution for this problem? 

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    0 JCTEYSSIER0 5 days ago

    Hello Julian,

    i do not know if this is the root problem but it is not a good idea to have special characters in pathname and filename.

    And space is a special character: it is considered by some tools as a field separator.

    My recommendation is to use only letters (a to z or A to Z), numbers (0 to 9),dash (-) and underscore (_).

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    0 JCTEYSSIER0 5 days ago

    Hello Julian,

    i do not know if this is the root problem but it is not a good idea to have special characters in pathname and filename.

    And space is a special character: it is considered by some tools as a field separator.

    My recommendation is to use only letters (a to z or A to Z), numbers (0 to 9),dash (-) and underscore (_).

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