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pxl.exe has stopped working

Becca
Becca over 11 years ago

When I try to export physical, I get a windows error box that says "pxl.exe has stopped working". I click close the program a Design Sync error shows "Error: PXL Failed. Unable to package the design. Do you wish to view the pxl.log file?" If I click yes, it fails to open the documents, presumably because it was never generated. I saw an article that said this could be cause by having multiple paths in the $path environmental variables. I looked and didn't see anything but did a system restore to the last time that it worked anyway. It did not fix it. 

 

Any ideas?

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    chads108 over 11 years ago

    Few more questions.

    Can you be more specific on version?  16.6-?

    Did you confirm that the pxl.log file is really not created?

    Is %CDSROOT% rectifing itself to C:\Cadence\SPB_16.6 in your path?

    Chad

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  • chads108
    chads108 over 11 years ago

    Few more questions.

    Can you be more specific on version?  16.6-?

    Did you confirm that the pxl.log file is really not created?

    Is %CDSROOT% rectifing itself to C:\Cadence\SPB_16.6 in your path?

    Chad

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