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Hole symbols from mirrored symbol pins not showing on Fab Layer Gerber

LANCEK
Hello fellow PCBers:

I’m having a problem manufacturing my Fab-Layer artwork in v16.0. When I view the Fab-Layer in Orcad, all the holes are shown with their correct symbols. After manufacturing the artwork, only the holes of parts that are on the Top Layer are shown on the Gerber File.

I have updated their individual PAD files and Symbol files, updated the symbols on the board, updated the Drill Legend and NC-Drilled a dozen times, gone to drill customization verified that the holes are defined as I thought and "validated" (not that I know what validate does).

NCLEGEND-1-2 (it’s a 2-Layer board) is in the Manufacture>Artwork>FabLayer film definition, so I have no clue how to fix this problem.

When I view only the Fab Layer in Orcad and turn on Symbol Pin in Super Filter, I can "select" the hole-symbols of parts that are on the top layer, but the program does not appear to recognize the hole-symbols that are on the bottom layer.

There has to be some basic thing I have set up incorrectly, because this seems like a fairly simple task that I'm trying to accomplish!

Thanks for any help!
-Lance

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  • Hi

    I'm not 100% sure but I think this was fixed in an ISR. Please check the service pack you are at. The most uptodate version 16.0 of OrCAD PCB Designer is:

    Version 16.0 s050 (v16-0-87BH) (3/25/2008)

    Regards,

    BillZ

    EMA Design Automation

  • Thanks Bill!

     I have OrCAD PCB Designer 16.0 p006 (v16-0-87H) [6/14/2007] i86

     When our licence was expiring at the end of last year, I was told there were no updates available, so I had no incentive to update the service plan that had never been used. If thatversion was from March of last year, it was available. Am I in hosed because I am no longer up to date, or is there somewhere I can go to download the service pack?

    Thanks again.
    Lance

  • As I keep trying to sign up for SourceLink, where I hope I can download from, I get the well worded error:
    "System is currently having problem. Please try again later."

    I guess I'll keep trying.

  • Hi

    OrCAD Customers do not have access to Sourcelink. You can get the updates from your VAR. In North America it is EMA Design Automation. If you are on current maintenance.

    A Hot fix was released for OrCAD PCB Editor the current version is

    16.0 S050 Dated 3/25/2008  you are running the base release. I can not be 100% sure the hotfix would correct this issue with out testing. Also version 16.2 has been released with new features.

    Regards,

    BillZ

    EMA Design Automation 

     

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