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All components have been placed, but many are still on Placement List

I have Orcad PCB Designer Standard 17.2 with the latest hotfix. I have placed all the components and routed the board. Design Status tells me I still have 42.6% Unplaced symbols. The Placement List shows many of the symbols. Those symbol show no coordinates if I run a Component report. But all those components have already been placed; I can see them on the board. If I try to place one of the duplicate components on the Placement List, the pads disappear from the already placed component, but the rest of the component is still there. If I try to move the added duplicate, the traces that were connected to the disappearing pads move.

The attached picture shows an example: You can see that C6 and C7 are placed, but they are also in the Placement List and the Component report shows no coordinates. The .brd file is also attached.

Please help!

jmadsenee over 6 years ago

Well, evidently the .brd file would not attach...
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redwire over 6 years ago in reply to jmadsenee

You have to zip it to attach here or put it on a share drive like Google or Github
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jmadsenee over 6 years ago in reply to redwire

ZuffaClock.zipHere is the .brd file
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Tmills over 6 years ago

Wish I had a good answer for you. That is completely goofy. I get the same behavior as you describe. I can only guess it is a netlist problem. This would be a great candidate to send into Cadence or EMA EDA for support.
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jmadsenee over 6 years ago in reply to Tmills

I have been using 17.2 since it came out and it has never happened before. I looked at the netlist and there was only one copy of each component. How did you handle it before?
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