Thanks Buck... turned out an engineer wanted to change a ref des in the design and then didn't finish... left it blank which is a big no no in the orcad-allegro world... but I "love" the error... so "descriptive." -----Original Message----- From: icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Kevin Buchanan Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 6:57 PM To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: Orcad Capture error in creating netlist... Hi Gene, I have only seen this a couple of times. It is related to a part not being correct. I would look at line 11 in the pstxprt.dat file and see which part this is related to. I hope this helps. Buck... ------ Original Message ------ Received: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 03:03:16 PM EDT From: "Gene Carman" <gcarman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Orcad Capture error in creating netlist... Just upgraded to version 15.2 Update 1... this included an update to the Capture CIS. Now I cannot get a valid netlist out. I have an error that reads: Scanning netlist files ... Loading... F:\PROJECTS\HUSKY\HW\P3\WORKING/pstchip.dat Loading... F:\PROJECTS\HUSKY\HW\P3\WORKING/pstchip.dat Loading... F:\PROJECTS\HUSKY\HW\P3\WORKING/pstxprt.dat #38 DDB_ERROR: Terminating character ':' not found on line 11. DDB_INFO: File F:\PROJECTS\HUSKY\HW\P3\WORKING/pstxprt.dat not loaded. Error: Line 11 in file F:\PROJECTS\HUSKY\HW\P3\WORKING/pstxprt.dat: Error loading the parts list file Detected in function: ddbLoadPstXFiles #111 Error [ALG0036] Unable to read logical netlist data. Anyone have any fixes or potential solutions... other than moving back to pre-update? ----------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe/unsubscribe: Send a message to icu-pcb-forum-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject of subscribe or unsubscribe To view the archives of this list please login at //www.freelists.org. Our list name is icu-pcb-forum or go to //www.freelists.org/archives/icu-pcb-forum/ Problems or Questions: Send an email to icu-pcb-forum-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Want to post a job listing ? DON'T DO IT HERE! Better yet, join our jobs listing forum. SUBSCRIBE: icu-jobs-forum-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxx POST: icu-jobs-forum@xxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe/unsubscribe: Send a message to icu-pcb-forum-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject of subscribe or unsubscribe To view the archives of this list please login at //www.freelists.org. Our list name is icu-pcb-forum or go to //www.freelists.org/archives/icu-pcb-forum/ Problems or Questions: Send an email to icu-pcb-forum-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Want to post a job listing ? DON'T DO IT HERE! Better yet, join our jobs listing forum. SUBSCRIBE: icu-jobs-forum-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxx POST: icu-jobs-forum@xxxxxxxxxx -----------------------------------------------------------