Orcad capture symbol copy

No, you cannot since pasting the same pin numbers into the same symbol would not make any sense, hence the pin numbers are not copied. Why not copy the symbol in the library and edit that?

I use the “split part” command so I can copy (copy and paste) the pin and etcetera to an excel spread sheet. This is useful when you do not have a copy of the original excel spread sheet that built the part. I know of no other way of doing this. I have a part built by someone else in which if I try to split the part Orcad capture gives me the error “ERROR(ORCAP-1260) package cannot be split as it contains 3 parts”. I have use this process many time before on multiple part heterogeneous parts. I thought if I rebuilt the part by copy and pasting from one symbol editor to another that would fix the problem. Does anyone know a way of generating a spreadsheet from an Orcad Capture part?

Open the Library Part, View>Package, Edit>Properties, select the grid contents, Cntrl+Insert to Copy, Cntrl+V to paste into Excel.

If you have a library open, and then a symbol being edited, you can go to File, save as, and save to a new name. Now you have a full copy of that part in the same library. Super easy this way.

ronnoz said:

I have to symbol editors open in schematic capture and I want to copy one symbol into the other. When a do a copy and past the pins cumber do not copy. Is there a way I can preserve the pin numbers on a symbol copy and past?

Hi. Try to select pins only rather than the whole symbol and copy them, so pins number will stay preserved.

The only problem, that the pins locations will not be preserved, but their sequence will remain unchanged.

Best Regards