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Component not transferred from capture to pcb editor

nuldum

Hi,

I have tried now for days to transfer my design in Orcad Capture CIS to PCB Editor, but no matter what I do one of my components is not transferred to PCB Editor. The component is a transformer with a custom footprint. I've made a lot of custom components and they all transfer just fine except for this one component. 

I can see it on the design cache, but it doesn't show up on the Bill of Materials, it's not in part manager and it doesn't get transferred when creating a netlist. What could I possibly do wrong when it worked for every single other component I made myself?

I'm using a custom database it it works smoothly with the other components.

- Nikolaj

  • oldmouldy
    Check the Primitive property value for the component. The Primitive value should be set to Default or Yes to work as a regular component, a Primitive value of No can get the behaviour that you are seeing.
  • nuldum
    Thank you for you answer. The Primitive property is already set to default and changing it to YES does not seems to change anything.
  • redwire
    Try manually placing the transformer on the board. You will get a warning in the command window if a padstack or shape is missing. Much harder to track this down for beginners if it is during netlisting from OrCAD.
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