Database Part

[chinmaymayee]

Having problem assigning Schematic_Part to a database entry. What should be the content of column to assign with Schematic_part?

[Anatoliy]

Have a look at the attached link- https://techdocs.altium.com/display/...erence+Designs
Download the examples, in there should be an example database library.
have a look at it, be aware that "Part Number" is a key field.
Following fields are a must-have in order for the library to fully function:
Library Ref
Library Path
Footprint Ref
Footprint Path

make sure your database library follows those guidelines;
if you still have problems feel free to ask

[robertferanec]

Having problem assigning Schematic_Part to a database entry. What should be the content of column to assign with Schematic_part?

- Just to clarify, we are speaking about OrCAD, correct?

I have not used Database library in OrCAD, so I am not really sure

[chinmaymayee]

yes, while placing a part in orcad capture, after right clicking, there is an option of 'place database part'.
I have connected my database through odbc driver, the database is being read by orcad capture.
while setting 'schematic_part' parameter, you have to select a column to let the orcad capture know which symbol to use.
I cant figure out what should be the contents of the respective column

[chinmaymayee]

Have a look at the attached link- https://techdocs.altium.com/display/...erence+Designs
Download the examples, in there should be an example database library.
have a look at it, be aware that "Part Number" is a key field.
Following fields are a must-have in order for the library to fully function:
Library Ref
Library Path
Footprint Ref
Footprint Path

make sure your database library follows those guidelines;
if you still have problems feel free to ask

Anatoliy the solution you have given is for altium database library, I had problem with orcad capture. But still thank you

[chinmaymayee]

OK i could assign symbol to database entry. (By providing absolute location of symbol on drive)
Now I cant assign footprint to a database entry. Please help

[robertferanec]

Just curios, you are using CIS to assign the symbol and footprint, right? I thought, that it should be easy ... please, let me know when you make it work. Thank you.

[chinmaymayee]

Just like altium you have to select a column to let cis know the location of library.
But in Altium you have to provide library location in one column i.e. footprint path and footprint name in footprint ref
in cis, e.g. to assign symbol, you have to give location of the library and after forward slash, the name of symbol. I could assign the symbol e.g.
C:\Cadence\SPB_17.2\tools\capture\library\Discrete .olb\RESISTOR
but i cant figure out how to assign footprint to database.

[robertferanec]

Friend of mine told me, maybe have a look into capture.ini and check out "Allegro Footprints" parameter (that could specify location of the Footprint directory):

[Allegro Footprints]
Dir0=\\XX.XX.XX.XX\sync\PCB_Footprints