Orcad library to concept symbol conversion

Hi Raghu,

There is no way to translate all OrCAD library parts to concept library at once. You can do it on part by part basis using File->Import->Capture Part (Windows only) in Part Developer.

Thanks

Rads

You can run a cap2con to convert all parts of Orcad Library to concept on DOS command prompt

ex to convert a.olb to cells in concept/abc 

cap2con -proj cap2con.cpm -olbpath a.olb  -alias asprimitives  -cdslib cds.lib -conceptlib abc -product pcb_librarian_expert

You need to create cap2con.cpm  similar to one shown below

START_GLOBAL
design_name 'dummy_root_design'
design_library 'cap2con_lib'
library 'cap2con_lib'
temp_dir 'temp'
cpm_version '17.2'
END_GLOBAL
START_PDV
Symbol_GridSize '0.100000000'
END_PDV

cds.lib

DEFINE cap2con_lib worklib
DEFINE abc ./concept/abc

Directory worklib temp should exist

Create directory concept/abc

Cells in A.olb will be created in concept/abc 

Note: Cell might have characters like #20 which is hex character for space for example cell FILTER BPF LFB212G45SG8A192 in concept will be filter#20bpf#20lfb212g45sg8a192

Hi Kirti,

It looks i am missing something, can you please check and let me know.

cap2con C:\Users\xx\Documents\cap2con\cap2con.cpm C:\Users\xx\Documents\X\CADLibraries\OrCAD_CIS_Database\a.olb  -alias asprimitives  C:\Users\xx\Documents\cap2con\cds.lib C:\Users\xx\Documents\cap2con\concept\abc C:\Cadence\SPB_16.6\tools\fet\bin\concepthdl.exe

Regards,

Raghu

Elgris Technologies (www.elgris.com) can convert OrCAD library to Concept library and can convert Concept library to OrCAD library

Hello,

The command line parameters are not correct, there are no options (given by -).

For example, the -proj option is not there to specify the project file.

Command line parameters of cap2con are given below 

Secondly, Why are specifying C:\Cadence\SPB_16.6\tools\fet\bin\concepthdl.exe 

You need to specify the pcb_librarian_expert as given below

-product pcb_librarian_expert

Command line parameters of cap2con are given below 

cap2con

[-proj <path_for_proj_Lib>/<proj_file_name>.cpm]

-cdslib <path_for_cds.lib>/cds.lib

-conceptlib <destination_design_entry_HDL_lib_name>

-olbpath <source_capture_lib_path>/<library_name>.olb

[-part <capture_part_name>]

[-alias {ascells|asprimitives}]

[-overwrite]

-product pcb_librarian_expert