[PCB_FORUM] Re: Pad designer editor problems

Switch to Unix? Just kidding.

Have you tried using the padstack editor from allegro
to see if it has the problem?
I am on 15.1 (as you probably already know) and it
seems to be ok. Maybe they messed up Pad Designer.

Kevin McCowan
Sr. PBC Designer
TSI Telsys

Gary MacIndoe wrote: 
Mitch, Shirley,

I think I have defined the problem, now I just need a solution!

It appears that I have an eight character limit in naming padstacks, but
just since moving to 15.2.  We have quite a few previously created padstacks
that exceed eight characters in name length.

Anyone have a clue as to how I can tell the "Pad_Designer" editor to allow
more than eight characters?

Thanks for the help!

Gary E. MacIndoe
PCB Design Engineer
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Longmont, Colorado




-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: Gary MacIndoe [mailto:gary.macindoe@xxxxxxx]
-> Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 1:50 PM
-> To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
-> Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: Pad designer editor problems
->
->
->
-> Hey Mitch,
->
-> We have used dashes and underscores in package as well as
-> padstack names for
-> years.  Now all of a sudden it doesn't appear to like either the
-> underscore
-> or the dash.
->
-> At first I copied/pasted a similar padstack file, renamed it,
-> then tried to
-> edit it.  It wouldn't load with the "_mod", so I took off the "_mod", it
-> would then load into the padstack editor.  Then I did a "save
-> as" and added
-> the "_mod".  Now, once again, I can't load it in with the "_mod"
-> to modify
-> it.  All of this is taking place in an "unchecked" directory
-> where we create
-> and use the symbols/padstacks in a design.  They are moved into
-> the "golden"
-> library directory only when tested in a populated functional PCB
-> assembly.
->
-> In this same "unchecked" directory, I can load a previously
-> created padstack
-> (i.e. "r15x70") without the "_mod" just fine.  It doesn't make
-> any sense to
-> me.  The only thing that has changed lately is I have moved from 15.1 to
-> 15.2.
->
-> Gary E. MacIndoe
-> PCB Design Engineer
-> Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
-> Longmont, Colorado
->
->
->
->
-> -> -----Original Message-----
-> -> From: Mitch S. Morey [mailto:cadpro2k@xxxxxxxxxx]
-> -> Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 11:04 AM
-> -> To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
-> -> Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: Pad designer editor problems
-> ->
-> ->
-> -> Hi Gary,
-> ->
-> -> Our library has padstacks with spaces and dashes in the names
-> and don't
-> -> give us problems.
-> ->
-> -> Just thinking...
-> ->
-> -> 1) are you positive you've mod'd this one in the 'correct'
-> library, and
-> -> maybe not in a duplicate path that Allegro is NOT looking in?
-> -> 2) When you say you've mod'd it from an existing, did you do
-> that in the
-> -> PADSTACK Editor? or did you simply copy it, and now the editor doesn't
-> -> find it. In that case you need to restart the editor
-> -> 3) can you call that new padstack (filename_mod.pad) up in the allegro
-> -> symbol editor?
-> -> 4) are you sure there's not a flash symbol associated with the new
-> -> padstack that the editor doesn't find?
-> ->
-> -> Hope this helps. Good day.
-> ->
-> -> Mitch
-> ->
-> ->
-> -> > Thanks Richard.  This padstack is in the same directory with
-> -> others that I
-> -> > have no problem loading into the padstack editor (they
-> don't have the
-> -> > "_mod"
-> -> > at the end).
-> -> >
-> -> > Gary E. MacIndoe
-> -> > PCB Design Engineer
-> -> > Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
-> -> > Longmont, Colorado
-> -> >
-> -> >
-> -> >   -----Original Message-----
-> -> >   From: Weinberg, Richard (Richard) [mailto:rweinberg@xxxxxxxxx]
-> -> >   Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 10:17 AM
-> -> >   To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
-> -> >   Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: Pad designer editor problems
-> -> >
-> -> >
-> -> >   I've seen this before. I'm not sure but, check if there are
-> -> any spaces
-> -> > in
-> -> > any of the directory names in the total path.
-> -> >
-> -> >
-> -> >
-> -> >   __________________________________________________
-> -> >
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-> -> >
-> -> >
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-> -> > 04096
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-> -> >
-> -> >
-> -> >
-> -> >   Richard Weinberg           Tel: 207 846 4539
-> -> >
-> -> >   Applications Engineer                 rweinberg@xxxxxxxxx
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-> -> >
-> -> >
-> -> >
-> -> >
-> -> >
-> -> >   -----Original Message-----
-> -> >   From: Gary MacIndoe [mailto:gary.macindoe@xxxxxxx]
-> -> >   Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 12:03 PM
-> -> >   To: Allegro Forum
-> -> >   Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Pad designer editor problems
-> -> >
-> -> >
-> -> >
-> -> >   Hey guys,
-> -> >
-> -> >
-> -> >
-> -> >   Anyone see this while trying to edit a padstack?  I have a
-> -> padstack that
-> -> > I
-> -> > modified from another one with "_mod" at the end (i.e. the
-> padstack is
-> -> > named
-> -> > "r11x44_mod.pad").  Could it be the "_"?  I tried replacing
-> -> the "_" with a
-> -> > "-", then taking it out altogether, same results.  Only when I
-> -> remove the
-> -> > "mod", can I edit the padstack!  I can edit ones without the
-> -> "_mod" all I
-> -> > want.
-> -> >
-> -> >
-> -> >
-> -> >   Thanks for any replies!
-> -> >
-> -> >
-> -> >
-> -> >
-> -> >
-> -> >
-> -> >
-> -> >
-> -> >
-> -> >
-> -> >   Gary E. MacIndoe
-> -> >   PCB Design Engineer
-> -> >   Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
-> -> >   Longmont, Colorado
-> -> >
-> -> >
-> -> >
-> ->
-> ->
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