Re: OrCAD fun & games

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:28:44 -0400, the renowned Phil Munro
<PcMunro@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'll be teaching a course starting Monday, and we will be using and
learning about OrCAD v10. We have demo version and licensed full
version access. I am using the full version.

Just when I think I'm starting to figure our OrCAD, it will do
something crazy, giving me a message but not giving any answers.

Here is my latest two things. They were connected! I tried to move
a whole circuit (four bjts) up toward the left corner of the display,
and OrCAD gave me a message that said it could not recover and I would
be closed down. Since I did not want to change the files I started
with, I said no to any save requests. The ERROR was weird #1 occurrence.

Then when opening OrCAD and the project again, when I tried to edit
the PSpice model for one of the bjts, I was told that the editor was
already running and would have to be close. OK, where is it running,
and how to I close something I cannot find?

That's what Task Manager is for. ;-) You should be able to identify
the process that is running and kill it.

Apparently when OrCAD has a serious problem and kills itself, something
is left behind with new startups.

Anyone have some ideas or help with these things? And am I just
still a slow learner when it comes to OrCAD?

I was finally able to get it started and working again, but I am not
sure what I did to help it go again! --Phil


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
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