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padstack refresh and padstack replace not working properly in symbol editor

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This may be unique to the 220 series that I use at home. I used this command (padstack replace) with Allegro Designer at work yesterday and it appeared to work properly.

I tried both commands to fix some pads in a symbol....

The refresh command (refresh all padstacks) refreshed one pin only and would not refresh the other pins.

The replace command seems to replace one pin randomly, but not the other pins.


Originally posted in cdnusers.org by padmaster

  • It appears to be working right for me on 15.2 using PCB Design Studio 220. If one gets refreshed, all get refreshed.

    Are all your padstacks the exact same name? Maybe you haven't modified all of them at home. Make sure your PADPATH variable is set to where your pads are located.


    Originally posted in cdnusers.org by Padmin

  • I'm pretty sure my paths are set properly but I will double check this weekend.

    One other note.....I use XP pro at home and win2k at work. Could it be a problem with XP?


    Originally posted in cdnusers.org by padmaster

  • Don't think so. I'm using XP Pro also with one of the latest 15.2 ISRs. Make sure all your padstack names are the same. Possibly you edited an instance instead of the definition creating a different padstack name. Good Luck!


    Originally posted in cdnusers.org by Padmin

  • But that doesn't explain why padstack refresh didn't refresh all pins initially. I modified the padstack in Pad Designer, saved it (same name), then tried to refresh all padstacks in Symbol Editor. It only refreshed one pin (it was visually noticable because I made the hole significantly smaller). I then recreated the symbol and saved it, then refreshed the symbol in the brd file and it refreshed OK there. That's when I opened the symbol again and tried the padstack replace command.

    Maybe it's just not updating the graphics in Symbol Editor.


    Originally posted in cdnusers.org by padmaster

  • I tried this on my system and it worked fine. Did you check the refresh_padstack.log file for possible reasons??


    Originally posted in cdnusers.org by osprey
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