Stats

  • Locked Locked
  • Replies 5
  • Subscribers 166
  • Views 15928
  • Members are here 0
More Content
This discussion has been locked.
You can no longer post new replies to this discussion. If you have a question you can start a new discussion

Move and offset updated symbol (component)

Grubi

I had an old revision of the board, and I replace some Ethernet connectors with new ones.

Those are fixed, because they have fixed places on the panel I have, and I don't want to loose their position and orientation.

New Ethernet jacks are slightly longer, but I reuse older symbols, so origin is the same, grids are same. When I do update netlist with new ones, they stay exactly on the places of the old ones, but they need slight correction in y direction (for example, there can be also slight correction in x). Symbols are 90deg rotated to original position when created in library.

If I Move the component and use command line

x (new x coordinates, new y coordinates) it goes in quite different place, and show element after this show me different coordinate of one I write down

x (new x coordinates, new y coordinates) yields same thing

OK, now I try now Draftting Offset move - first time I move in y direction with 0.1 connector jumps quite a lot, then offset moves are exact, but this takes a lot of time and effort.

What am I doing wrong here? Thanks in advance!

  • GIRISH KUMAR
    Check your pick location (body centre/userpick/Symbol origin).. Simpler will be iy value (eg:iy 0.1 or iy -0.1)
  • Grubi

    Thanks Girish - iy value may work for me. When I use "Show element" for a symbol, it always show Symbol origin coordinates, or this can be changed, too? Even when I change pick location to origin and try move by " x x.xxx x.xxx" or "y x.xxx x.xxx" it not moves as I want to.I tried origin, center of the symbol and pin one, but probably do something fundamentally wrong because it not move in a logical way or the way I want...

  • GIRISH KUMAR

    Strange !!  for rest of the footprint  moving logically ? if have the rights to share the footprint I can check  here.

    Regards ,GK

  • Grubi
    Here it is - well I did not find a way to attach it here, so here is the link in my Dropbox https://www.dropbox.com/sh/33b1dgx76ssnvof/AACBUd465xSi0eTIKH7228KGa?dl=0
  • GIRISH KUMAR

    Absolutely  no issue with footprint  !! its movement is fine . I manually placed in board file its movement is  proper when I enter coordinates

    Final solution may  be

    1)run pcb editor utilities ->run DB docotor on board file ..

    2)Look any property attached to symbol (edit object property select symbol)

    3)Try placing symbol manually & check movement

    Regards
    GK

Cadence Guidelines

Community Guidelines

The Cadence Design Communities support Cadence users and technologists interacting to exchange ideas, news, technical information, and best practices to solve problems and get the most from Cadence technology. The community is open to everyone, and to provide the most value, we require participants to follow our Community Guidelines that facilitate a quality exchange of ideas and information. By accessing, contributing, using or downloading any materials from the site, you agree to be bound by the full Community Guidelines.