Error with Footprint Designer and OrCAD PCB

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   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.

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chrisa_pcb Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Moderator Group Joined: 29 Jul 2012 Location: San Diego Status: Offline Points: 772	Post Options Post Reply Quote chrisa_pcb Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Error with Footprint Designer and OrCAD PCB 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.



afyon Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List New User Joined: 10 Mar 2014 Status: Offline Points: 12	Post Options Post Reply Quote afyon Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply Posted: 11 Mar 2014 at 10:48am
	@Lekselius, I’m having the same issue so I wanted to thank you for starting the thread. I worked around the issue by making custom pads. Just for future reference, has this issue been fixed now and if so, which revision number includes this update. I don’t have an internet connection the PC I work on so I just wanted to know if the latest patch would update this for me. I’m kind of hoping I can find a small update patch instead of updating the complete OrCAD. pcb assembly

chrisa_pcb Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Moderator Group Joined: 29 Jul 2012 Location: San Diego Status: Offline Points: 772	Post Options Post Reply Quote chrisa_pcb Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply 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.

d_nilsson Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List New User Joined: 22 Jul 2013 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 12	Post Options Post Reply Quote d_nilsson Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 26 Jul 2013 at 4:12am
	Ok, I will manually modify the padstack definition in Orcad PCB Designer then until Chris is back.

Tom H Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 05 Jan 2012 Location: San Diego, CA Status: Offline Points: 6033	Post Options Post Reply Quote Tom H Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply Posted: 25 Jul 2013 at 5:41pm
	The CAD interface programmer (Chris) is on vacation and will be back next week.
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d_nilsson Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List New User Joined: 22 Jul 2013 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 12	Post Options Post Reply Quote d_nilsson Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply 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

BennsPCB Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Advanced User Joined: 30 Jan 2013 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 98	Post Options Post Reply Quote BennsPCB Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply 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, ...

Lekselius Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List New User Joined: 10 Apr 2013 Location: Sverige Status: Offline Points: 21	Post Options Post Reply Quote Lekselius Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply 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: Error when running the batch file: Resulting footprint in Orcad: And the files to create the Orcad footprint created by FP designer: Tutorial_1234N.zip

Tom H Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 05 Jan 2012 Location: San Diego, CA Status: Offline Points: 6033	Post Options Post Reply Quote Tom H Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply 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

Lekselius Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List New User Joined: 10 Apr 2013 Location: Sverige Status: Offline Points: 21	Post Options Post Reply Quote Lekselius Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply Posted: 06 Jun 2013 at 11:23pm
	I'm running PCB Library Expert version 2013.02