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Unable to change the design extents

Micheal schenk

I have OrCAD PCB professional 17.2 with hotfix 052.

I have imported the board file which was designed in altium tool. After the successful translation of altium file I found the design extents are very large roughly in -4000000.00 in X,Y coordinate.

If i try to contract the extents i m getting the error as attached in the image.

Is there any possiblity to contract extents ? this issue i m facing when i import altium file to OrCAD PCB

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  • oldmouldy

    This could be a side effect of the importer. Try changing the Units to Mils / Metric, whichever the board currently isn't, then run Check>Database Check with all the options enabled and Check. Then set the Units back to what they originally were and run the Database Check again. See if that clears the issue. If not, Display>Zoom>World, check Application Mode is General Edit, start Edit>Delete, set "All on" in Find and window drag a rectangle between the actual board data and the world boundary - you will likely get "no element found" in the PCB Editor Command Window for these selections but you will have convinced PCB Editor that there is "Nothing there", right-click>Done to end the Delete command and resizing the design should then be possible.

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  • oldmouldy

    This could be a side effect of the importer. Try changing the Units to Mils / Metric, whichever the board currently isn't, then run Check>Database Check with all the options enabled and Check. Then set the Units back to what they originally were and run the Database Check again. See if that clears the issue. If not, Display>Zoom>World, check Application Mode is General Edit, start Edit>Delete, set "All on" in Find and window drag a rectangle between the actual board data and the world boundary - you will likely get "no element found" in the PCB Editor Command Window for these selections but you will have convinced PCB Editor that there is "Nothing there", right-click>Done to end the Delete command and resizing the design should then be possible.

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