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Cannot Place part manually in Orcad 16.6 Pcb editor

Deep7086

{NEW TO ORCAD]

I can netlist (with the usual renaming warnings) and open the netlist in Orcad PCB. I get a (correct) list of parts when I go to Place/Manually - but there's no Quickview preview and I can't place anything. I can check the parts but then when I hit ok Its just blank. There should be an error message to hint what's wrong - but I don't know where to look (netrev.lst is "clean" with no error/oversight/warning detected). Very, very frustrating!

After netlist i can see a new.brd file but its just waste. I cant place anything. Plz i need to get done with a project within 2 weeks and this thing is just eating me.

Any Instant help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Deep.

  • eDave

    Check your psm path (Setup/User Preferences/Paths/Library/psmpath)

  • Deep7086

    The path should be poiting to where ?? It jus shows $psmpath

  • eDave
    Tick the expand box. Your psms should be in one of the paths.
  • Deep7086

    Thank you Dave.

    i added a path cadence/Orcad 16.6/share/pcb/pcb_lib/symbols

    I hit ok and close the user interface tab

    again again I see the path changes to $psmpath ....why is that happening? 

  • eDave
    Don't worry. Just tick the expand button to see the list of paths.
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