[PCB_FORUM] Re: Design Reuse From Existing Designs
- From: "gnieski, mike" <gnieski_mike@xxxxxxx>
- To: "'icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:22:41 -0500
Cant you just create the module from the exsisting board?
If you do a create module from the board it will take that section that you
window and make a .mdd
which you can then use? This would eliminate a lot of steps that you are
doing. A little trick that I
do is to copy the .mdd into a .brd to read in a schematic representation of
the module. I am not positive
but believe that the properties get carried into the .mdd.
thanks,
Mike Gnieski
EMC2 Corp.
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From: Mariani, Stephen [mailto:smariani@xxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 11:07 AM
To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Design Reuse From Existing Designs
I am creating a module from an existing design. I have done the following:
1, Read in the tec file from the existing board and imported it to the
Module.
2, Read in the new tel file to the module.
3, Took existing (board I want to copy from) and exported the placement.
4, Read the placement into the module, that placed only the components I
needed for the module.
5, Clipped all the traces, vias and fills from existing board from specific
area.
6, Imported clip files to the module.
Now I notice all the traces are missing properties. I am necking down inside
fine pitch BGA's and I have a ton of trace width errors. Does anyone know
how to import the net properties to my existing module?
I tried reading in the netlist with properties but not sure this is the best
way?
Thanks
Steve
Stephen Mariani
Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.
199 Riverneck Road
Chelmsford, MA 01824
Phone: (978) 967-1855
Fax: (978) 244-0520
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