Re: Protel 99SE netlist issue

Dennis,
I can't help you with your problem, from your descriptions thus far I
cannot see that you are doing anything wrong. When you use the Update PCB
function do you get any warnings? If there are any warnings you will see a
Warnings tab behind the configuration tab where you set the net connectivity
to ports and nets global. Those warnings, if they exist, could possibly
point you toward your issue(s).

Hmmm, are all your annotations (designators) unique? Duplicated
designators will result in duplicate parts being ignored in a netlist or
partslist. That might explain why some random parts are being left out on
the two pages that do netlist.

You state that all three sheets show in the lefthand explorer window,
but do all three sheets appear as sub-sheets below the *.prj sheet? Like
subdirectories to the *.prj *** if you were just looking at a MS Explorer
window? All three should be inset and below the *.prj ***. I am wondering
if the third *** is somehow not a sub*** of the *.prj ***. Collapse
the project *** and all three of your schematics should not be visible in
the Protel Explorer window.

On your last question, a netlist is not created because the Update PCB
function doesn't need to create a netlist, it updates the PCB file directly.
The only time that you need to create a netlist in P99SE is if you want ot
pass that netlist to other PCB software. The update PCB function replaced
the older generate a netlist, then load the netlist into a PCB
functionality.

Now if you are saying that you can use the Update function to get a
correct PCB with all the components and connections, have you tried to
create the netlist from the PCB file? You can do this under the "D"esign,
n"E"tlist function through the "Menu" button in the lower left of the pop-up
netlist manager window. It should be a properly formatted Protel netlist,
just the same as a netlist created from the schematic. Although you don't
have the option to create differently formatted netlists from the PCB.

--
Sincerely,
Brad Velander.

"Dennis" <dennis@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I've now found that <design>/<update pcb..> will load the parts on the PCB
and show valid nets between the pads, however <design>/<create netlist..>
still does not creates an empty netlist.

The "update pcb" step does not create a "xxxx.net" netlist file - why???


thanks



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