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Can I shrink an imported schematic?

sc shadow

I took advantage of TI's online WEBENCH tool to generate a schematic for a voltage regulator circuit.  The tool provides an EDIF and a configuration file.  These are imported into OrCAD (17.2).

The resulting schematic is *huge*, with each symbol being 2 - 3x larger in height and width than a symbol that you would drop in the design using Add Component.  I need to use a D-size or E-size sheet to accommodate a modest design on 20 symbols (almost all resistors or capacitors) and anything that I add to the new sheet appears miniscule.

Is there any way to do a wholesale shrink of the imported schematic?  The symbols each contain a lot of information, so redoing it from scratch is not really an option.  Thank you.

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  • Dale Peterson

    One idea to explore. When importing exported graphical information in any tool, you have to make sure that "unit of measure" are set the same for both the exporting and import tools. Otherwise, you will get what you are getting. However, I'm not sure if it is possible to set the units in OrCAD Capture. But try this first. Go to the top of pull down under Options/  Design templates/ Page Size and select "inches or Millimeters. This is the only place I have found to change to mm or inches. However, this may not affect the import scaling. Hopefully, someone else would chime in to help with the units of measure setting.

    Cheers  

  • sc shadow
    in reply to Dale Peterson

    Thank you for your response!  It looks like changing the unit of measure would have worked, because reducing it from 0.1" to 0.025" made my existing symbols look tiny!  What I ultimately did, though, was to recreate the auto-generated schematic using my own symbols and the default unit of measure.  

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  • sc shadow
    in reply to Dale Peterson

    Thank you for your response!  It looks like changing the unit of measure would have worked, because reducing it from 0.1" to 0.025" made my existing symbols look tiny!  What I ultimately did, though, was to recreate the auto-generated schematic using my own symbols and the default unit of measure.  

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