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strange behavior creating a netlist orcad 16.6 windows 7

bradly

I have had orcad 16.6 for about a year and have ran across a strange behavior.  I click on the netlist icon and it asks for the file name, I enter the .mnl file name click OK it then says it is going to save the file prior to netlisting, I click on OK It then tells me that there are errors, which I expect as their is always something wrong that it finds.  This is where the strange behavior occurs, when I click on OK the prompt goes away and no session log or netlist are created, and this is where I am stuck.  I have tried rebooting my computer, i have created a new project and copied and pasted the entire (one page) design into a different file name, I get the same results,  Any help out there?

  • ScottCad

    I have seen strange behavior while netlisting with capture on win 7 also.

    The solution was to run Capture as an Administrator.

    Right click on the capture Icon, select Run as an administrator

    That may work for you

    Scott

  • bradly

    Alas this did not work either, in the meantime I have tried coping and pasting the schematic onto and into a schematic that creates a .MNL file correctly and have gotten the same error with no log file and no .MNL file, anything else I can try?  I would not be above emailing you the the schematic file to see if you have better luck, I have done something that the program doesn't like and I do not know what...

  • steve
    Try getting the latest hotfix from Cadence Online support or the Channel Partner where you bought the software from. I would also say that MNL netlist files are very old (for OrCAD Layout) and that is now an unsupported tool. You could try looking at PCB Editor....
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