PCB Libraries Forum : Error with Footprint Designer and OrCAD PCB https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/ Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:17:09 +0000 Tue, 11 Mar 2014 12:25:30 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.07 360 https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=956 <![CDATA[PCB Libraries Forum]]> https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/forum_images/PCBLForumLogo.gif https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/ <![CDATA[Error with Footprint Designer and OrCAD PCB : Can you post your FPX along and...]]> https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/error-with-footprint-designer-and-orcad-pcb_topic956_post5048.html#5048 Author: chrisa_pcb
Subject: 956
Posted: 11 Mar 2014 at 12:25pm

Can you post your FPX along and the details with the exact issue you may have? I'm pretty positive the initial issue was handled but would like to see how its the same or differs from the original issue.

Also. make sure to get past a padstack error that you close the error, do file -> save in pad_designer, you should get the error again(close it), it'll ask you to save padstack with warnings.. put yes, and then close it. If you don't manually save a non-plated padstack with warnings, it will not generate the .pad and use the first .pad it can find in the directory rather than the one you wanted it to generate. This will cause a regular non-plated hole to tend to be generated improperly. Its a OrCAD PCB issue that if you simply close out the padstack designer, it doesn't save the actual .pad with warnings, if it had warnings.


]]> Tue, 11 Mar 2014 12:25:30 +0000 https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/error-with-footprint-designer-and-orcad-pcb_topic956_post5048.html#5048 <![CDATA[Error with Footprint Designer and OrCAD PCB : @Lekselius, I’m having the same...]]> https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/error-with-footprint-designer-and-orcad-pcb_topic956_post5047.html#5047 Author: afyon
Subject: 956
Posted: 11 Mar 2014 at 10:48am

@Lekselius, I’m having thesame issue so I wanted to thank you for starting the thread. I worked aroundthe issue by making custom pads. Just for future reference, has this issue beenfixed now and if so, which revision number includes this update. I don’t havean internet connection the PC I work on so I just wanted to know if the latestpatch would update this for me. I’m kind of hoping I can find a small updatepatch instead of updating the complete OrCAD.

pcb assembly
]]> Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:48:16 +0000 https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/error-with-footprint-designer-and-orcad-pcb_topic956_post5047.html#5047 <![CDATA[Error with Footprint Designer and OrCAD PCB : I&#039;ll be looking at fixing...]]> https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/error-with-footprint-designer-and-orcad-pcb_topic956_post4170.html#4170 Author: chrisa_pcb
Subject: 956
Posted: 10 Aug 2013 at 12:44pm

I'll be looking at fixing this issue shortly, but it probably won't make it into the tool until the next update in a couple of weeks.]]> Sat, 10 Aug 2013 12:44:41 +0000 https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/error-with-footprint-designer-and-orcad-pcb_topic956_post4170.html#4170 <![CDATA[Error with Footprint Designer and OrCAD PCB : Ok, I will manually modify the...]]> https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/error-with-footprint-designer-and-orcad-pcb_topic956_post4045.html#4045 Author: d_nilsson
Subject: 956
Posted: 26 Jul 2013 at 4:12am

Ok, I will manually modify the padstack definition in Orcad PCB Designer then until Chris is back.

]]> Fri, 26 Jul 2013 04:12:12 +0000 https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/error-with-footprint-designer-and-orcad-pcb_topic956_post4045.html#4045 <![CDATA[Error with Footprint Designer and OrCAD PCB : The CAD interface programmer...]]> https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/error-with-footprint-designer-and-orcad-pcb_topic956_post4040.html#4040 Author: Tom H
Subject: 956
Posted: 25 Jul 2013 at 5:41pm

The CAD interface programmer (Chris) is on vacation and will be back next week.
 
]]> Thu, 25 Jul 2013 17:41:32 +0000 https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/error-with-footprint-designer-and-orcad-pcb_topic956_post4040.html#4040 <![CDATA[Error with Footprint Designer and OrCAD PCB : Hi,Was this issue ever resolved?...]]> https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/error-with-footprint-designer-and-orcad-pcb_topic956_post4038.html#4038 Author: d_nilsson
Subject: 956
Posted: 25 Jul 2013 at 4:55pm

Hi,

Was this issue ever resolved? I'm running into the same problem, using FP Designer in version 2013.08.

If I open up the sample part AMPH_10-507143-85E in Sample Data - FP Designer.fpx and try to just build it (no changes) for Orcad PCB 16.6 the padstack definition for the NPTHs (keying holes using padstack c100hn295k395_395) is invalid. Cadence padstack editor will spit out during processing of the batch file:

PADSTACK ERRORS and WARNINGS:

Drill hole size is equal or larger than smallest pad size.
Pad will be drilled away.

I think this is since what FP Designer is telling Cadence to do is to add 1mm pads on all layers without thermal relief or anti-pad and then drill with a 2.95mm drill, Cadence doesn't like that definition of a NPTH.

Is this a known bug? Any workarounds? According to padstack designer in FP Designer there should be a 3.95mm antipad, but that antipad seems to be set to "null" in Cadence when instead it maybe should have been the regular pad that should have been set to "null".

Thanks
Daniel
]]> Thu, 25 Jul 2013 16:55:43 +0000 https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/error-with-footprint-designer-and-orcad-pcb_topic956_post4038.html#4038 <![CDATA[Error with Footprint Designer and OrCAD PCB : Have you turned on &#034;Setup/Design...]]> https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/error-with-footprint-designer-and-orcad-pcb_topic956_post3657.html#3657 Author: BennsPCB
Subject: 956
Posted: 15 Jun 2013 at 7:27am

Have you turned on "Setup/Design Parameters.../Display non-plated holes".
Otherwise you only see the pad, which will be drilled away.
Just my 2 cents, ...
]]> Sat, 15 Jun 2013 07:27:51 +0000 https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/error-with-footprint-designer-and-orcad-pcb_topic956_post3657.html#3657 <![CDATA[Error with Footprint Designer and OrCAD PCB : I have watched the video and followed...]]> https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/error-with-footprint-designer-and-orcad-pcb_topic956_post3630.html#3630 Author: Lekselius
Subject: 956
Posted: 11 Jun 2013 at 10:57pm

I have watched the video and followed the exact same step as in the tutorial, creating an identical footprint but I get the same error when importing the footprint as I got previously.

This is the footprint in package designer:
FP designer component

Error when running the batch file:

Padstack editor error

Resulting footprint in Orcad:
Resulting Orcad footprint

And the files to create the Orcad footprint created by FP designer: Tutorial_1234N.zip

]]> Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:57:52 +0000 https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/error-with-footprint-designer-and-orcad-pcb_topic956_post3630.html#3630 <![CDATA[Error with Footprint Designer and OrCAD PCB : Did you watch this Footprint...]]> https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/error-with-footprint-designer-and-orcad-pcb_topic956_post3615.html#3615 Author: Tom H
Subject: 956
Posted: 07 Jun 2013 at 7:03am

Did you watch this Footprint Designer training video?
  

http://www.pcblibraries.com/products/fpx/userguide/default.asp?ch=104

 

There are several ways to control the through-hole padstacks and I would download the "Proportional Padstack Chart" and the "IPC Reference Calculator" here and get it past engineering, management and manufacturing -

  http://www.pcblibraries.com/forum/pcb-library-construction-guidelines_forum30.html 

]]> Fri, 07 Jun 2013 07:03:00 +0000 https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/error-with-footprint-designer-and-orcad-pcb_topic956_post3615.html#3615 <![CDATA[Error with Footprint Designer and OrCAD PCB : I&#039;m running PCB Library Expert...]]> https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/error-with-footprint-designer-and-orcad-pcb_topic956_post3614.html#3614 Author: Lekselius
Subject: 956
Posted: 06 Jun 2013 at 11:23pm

I'm running PCB Library Expert version 2013.02]]> Thu, 06 Jun 2013 23:23:44 +0000 https://www.PCBLibraries.com/forum/error-with-footprint-designer-and-orcad-pcb_topic956_post3614.html#3614