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Change a symbol, Orcad PCB Editor

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As a former Layout user, who has attended the Orcad PCB Editor class, I'm baffled why it's so hard to change a symbol within an existing design; for example, you decide that a 603 passive ought to be a 1206.

I did update the symbol by deleting the part in Capture, netlisting, importing logic into Pcb Editor, puting back the same part with the different symbol into Capture, netlisting, and finally importing into Pcb Editor, but this seems like an overly complex thing to have to do.

What is the preferred method?

Thanks,
Mike


Originally posted in cdnusers.org by mmagargee
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    Thank you for all of the replys. I believe that some of the problem was related to the location of my symbol directory. Placing these at the root (rather than C:\Profiles\My Documents and so on) made the search path work better when the padstack was matched up with the symbol. It then worked as I intended: loading a new footprint into an existing placed part without having to rip up that part.


    Originally posted in cdnusers.org by mmagargee
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    Thank you for all of the replys. I believe that some of the problem was related to the location of my symbol directory. Placing these at the root (rather than C:\Profiles\My Documents and so on) made the search path work better when the padstack was matched up with the symbol. It then worked as I intended: loading a new footprint into an existing placed part without having to rip up that part.


    Originally posted in cdnusers.org by mmagargee
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