Component Value in OrCAD PCB Designer : I don't know about OrCAD...

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 07:04:49 +0000

Author: jameshead
Subject: 860
Posted: 07 Mar 2013 at 7:04am

I don't know about OrCAD but certainly PADS and Pulsonix can do this though it's been removed from later versions of FPX. It was there very early in the beginning - and was in PCB Matrix's version of LP Wizard PADS ASCII output.

Earlier PADS ASCII outputs included the Part Type attribute (I think that's what PADS calls it) that got "translated" to the Pulsonix attribute. This would be the part name in the library though, and was on the silkscreen layer.

In this example below from a PADS .d file it's the Part-Type bit.

SOD3716N M 0 0 1 3 20 0 2 1
"Geometry.Height" 1.35mm
0.45 0 0 0 1.2 0.12 27 17 42
REF-DES
0 0 0 0 1.5 0.15 26 17 42
REF-DES
0 0 0 0 1.5 0.15 26 17 43
PART-TYPE

I guess changing 26 to 27 would do what you want but you'd have to amend the text position as well from 0,0

0 0 0 0 1.5 0.15 27 17 43
PART-TYPE

In Pulsonix it wouldn't be difficult to add this attribute on any layer in a footprint just using "insert attribute" command.

I wouldn't want it on my assembly drawing though since it would make them too uncluttered and the text size would be unreadable.

If it were included in any PADS ASCII output from FPX I'd just delete it like I deleted it before.

Component Value in OrCAD PCB Designer : Is there a way, that makes the...

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 05:07:57 +0000

Author: dmonca
Subject: 860
Posted: 22 Feb 2013 at 5:07am

Is there a way, that makes the footprint designer create an additional textmark (eg. below the one for the component reference) to display the component value on the assembly layer?

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