Austin, Cross Probing - I was told that crossprobing worked a long time ago but sometime during the new Allegro GUI 13.X introduction it broke for good. Decal Preview - I have never tried to get this to work but in theory with some setup you should be able to have it call the Allegro Free Viewer to preview the symbol. DxDesigner Attributes Manager - Sure, adding information in the DxDesigner attribute editor will pass to the Allegro netlist as properties as long as you specify the attribute as being passed to Allegro via the Allegro Configuration file (Allegro.cfg) Allegro.cfg is located in "standard" sub-directory inside the Viewdraw installation. Most of the Allegro properties are already in the Allegro.cfg but you may need to add a couple more or update some of the names to match SPB 15.x. I hope I am not making this sound easy, because its not!!! Here is some major things to be aware of when using this interface: - Deleting properties will need to be done manually on the Allegro side as well as the Viewdraw side. - Once XNET are created in Allegro net level properties will propagate thru the XNET during 3rd Party netlist import which can be difficult to manage on the Allegro side. - XNET or ECSET support is pretty much no existent so they much be managed via Constraints Manager in Allegro. - Pin to Pin Properties may not import into Allegro unless its via an incremental netlist. (Supersede all logic unchecked) - Pin to Pin Properties will need to be manually updated on the Viewdraw side when reference designators are renamed on the Allegro side. If you are doing basic rules on your designs then adding attributes in Viewdraw that pass over to Allegro as properties works rather well but once you move into a higher complexity then it can be easily accomplished and managed via Constraints Manager inside Allegro instead of via net level properties in Viewdraw. Hope this helps, Michael Catrambone UTStarcom, Inc. "Austin Franklin" <austin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>@freelists.org on 10/24/2005 03:13:52 PM Please respond to icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent by: icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: <icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc: Subject: [PCB_FORUM] DxDesigner to Allegro... Hi, Does anyone here use the DxDesigner (ViewDraw) to Allegro interface from Mentor? If so, I'd like to know: 1) Does it support crossprobing 2) Does it support decal preview 3) Can you use the DxDesigner Attributes Manager for entering/modifying constraints 4) What attributes does it pass to Allegro I'll also ask Mentor, but for some reason, they aren't very good at answering these types of questions. Regards, Austin ----------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------