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After placing a mechanical symbol I can't click or place more symbols

D Campbell

Hello again,

I'm running into a weird problem.  I made a board outline, mounting holes, ect and saved it as a mechanical symbol.  I then go to place this symbol in my design which goes fine, but afterwards I can not click on anything in the design area or place anymore symbols.  Often I can't even close the placement window.  The placement window also becomes very messed like it's trying to show two things at the same time and is mostly unresponsive.  The rest of the functions are fine and if I'm using a tool(delete, move, ect) I can left and right click fine.  I also notice that the command window just repeatably says 'Select elements to place using tree view.'  It will say this 4-9 times for no reason.  

To clarify, I can click the tool bars and such, just not in the design area.  

If I close and reopen the same design the problem will still be there.  If I'm having the problem then open a completely new design the problem is still there.  Pretty much anything I do, this problem persists.  This only happens with .brd files.  .dra files are completely fine.  I can't really test anything to see if it causes it or not because the problem won't go away.

I don't know if I'm doing something weird that is causing this but I'm hoping someone has seen this before and knows how to fix it.

Thank you!

  • Also, I just was able to test that it seems to be just this one part I'm trying to place. Other mechanical symbols are placed fine without causing the placement window to break and placing other types is fine. But the problem is still there even after this.
  • If you haven't already, try running a "database check" on the part in question. It might be a good idea to delete the part from your .BRD and run a database check on it as well. If that doesn't fix the problem, then maybe create a new mechanical symbol from scratch and see if the problem persists.

  • I tried the database check but that didn't fix it and the viewlog had no errors reported.  I can make a new mechanical signal but the problem exists even when there is no symbols on the design.  It's like it messed my entire OrCAD install because every design has this problem now. 

  • One last thing to look at might be units/extents of the Symbol (.DRA) vs. the .BRD you are trying to drop it into.  I don't know how a units/extents mismatch would cause the problems you are seeing but I've had some weird behavior cause by these sorts of problems in the past.

    But if your problem is now persistent across any .BRD you open then its probably not the culprit.

    If you have the ability, you may want to try working on another machine with a known good installation or OrCAD.  Or uninstall/reinstall OrCAD on your own machine if you can.  

    You may need to contact tech support for this one...

  • I made the extents go much more negative and that actually seemed to fix the problem. Thank you! It seems to be fixed everywhere now, hopefully it stays that way. I'm pretty new so I might have done something weird when I made the symbol. Thanks again!
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