Signal Name - Global Rename in Capture

Reformatting in IE... :-) 

1) Select design name in project manager window

2) From Menu select Edit -> Find,

 3) From the Find dialog - Select only off-page connectors with the name you want to rename

4) Select all on the spreadsheet that appears with offpage names 5) Select Menu Edit ->Properties - you should see another spreadsheet

 6) Rename one value on spreadsheet

7) Click Copy for the modified value

8) Select entire column

9) Click on button "paste" If you want Advanced processing and not just a simple name replacement -

You could try the following options (Please note : All these solutions will work require latest 16.3ISR installation.)-

a) Export to text format like EDIF or XML - make the changes and re-import it (For xml the tcl export and import commands are - XMATIC_XML2DSN and XMATIC_DSN2XML )

b) You can directly work on Orcad Database. Cadence provides a sample TCL on search and replace text. The TCL can be modified to work on Offpage objects. If you decide to use this - you need to execute the following TCL commands after your program has changed the signals on objects. package require capDesignUtil; ::capDesignUtil::reevaluateAllPagesOfOpenDesigns

You can execute this in batch or through TCL shell provided in Capture. TCL Commands and usage are documented in \tools\capture\tclscripts\OrCAD_Capture_TclTk_Extensions.pdf

If you need R&D help on TCL - you can contact at orcad_scripting@cadence.com

c) If your design only has a few pages - You can write a script to execute through User Interface. You can turn on the Journaling in Capture and see the TCL commands being executed through UI interface. You can write a simple script to work on small script to filter selected objects to offpages and execute the renaming command that was recorded in journaling. This will work for a page at a time unless you code TCL to go through all pages.

Reformatting in IE... :-) 

1) Select design name in project manager window

2) From Menu select Edit -> Find,

 3) From the Find dialog - Select only off-page connectors with the name you want to rename

4) Select all on the spreadsheet that appears with offpage names 5) Select Menu Edit ->Properties - you should see another spreadsheet

 6) Rename one value on spreadsheet

7) Click Copy for the modified value

8) Select entire column

9) Click on button "paste" If you want Advanced processing and not just a simple name replacement -

You could try the following options (Please note : All these solutions will work require latest 16.3ISR installation.)-

a) Export to text format like EDIF or XML - make the changes and re-import it (For xml the tcl export and import commands are - XMATIC_XML2DSN and XMATIC_DSN2XML )

b) You can directly work on Orcad Database. Cadence provides a sample TCL on search and replace text. The TCL can be modified to work on Offpage objects. If you decide to use this - you need to execute the following TCL commands after your program has changed the signals on objects. package require capDesignUtil; ::capDesignUtil::reevaluateAllPagesOfOpenDesigns

You can execute this in batch or through TCL shell provided in Capture. TCL Commands and usage are documented in \tools\capture\tclscripts\OrCAD_Capture_TclTk_Extensions.pdf

If you need R&D help on TCL - you can contact at orcad_scripting@cadence.com

c) If your design only has a few pages - You can write a script to execute through User Interface. You can turn on the Journaling in Capture and see the TCL commands being executed through UI interface. You can write a simple script to work on small script to filter selected objects to offpages and execute the renaming command that was recorded in journaling. This will work for a page at a time unless you code TCL to go through all pages.