Cadstar Help - how to merge two different designs into one PCB?
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Posted by minus3db on July 14, 2006, 2:03 pm
Please log in for more thread options Hi all, I am really hoping that a Cadstar guru out there can help me with this problem. I have two different schematics, each with their own unique PCB. I want to combine the two existing PCB layouts into a single new PCB layout. Here's the problem: there are common component designators between both schematics. For example, there is a diode D1 in schematic/PCB #1, and a diode D1 also in schematic/PCB #2. This is the case for several hundred component designators on both boards. I've tried to combine the two schematics together, which changes the component designators for schematic #2. As a result, when I try to stitch the two PCB layouts together, I'm unable to generate an ECO update, since the component designators no longer match. Has anybody had this problem before? I'd appreciate *any* feedback that might help me solve this problem. Thanks in advance, minus3db | |||||||||||||
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Posted by James Beck on July 14, 2006, 2:41 pm
Please log in for more thread options minus3db@gmail.com says... file? Jim | |||||||||||||
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Posted by Geo on July 15, 2006, 3:19 pm
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wrote: >Maybe do it with a Gerber editor, just paste them both into a common
>file? But surely he can't keep duplicate references on the final board - how will the assemblers know which R1 is which? Geo | |||||||||||||
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Posted by Anton Erasmus on August 3, 2006, 4:53 pm
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wrote: >wrote:
> >>Maybe do it with a Gerber editor, just paste them both into a common
>>file? >
>But surely he can't keep duplicate references on the final board - how will the >assemblers know which R1 is which? One would asume that it is two separate PCBs, that is just combined to make manufacturing cheaper. Regards Anton Erasmus | |||||||||||||
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> with this problem.
>
> I have two different schematics, each with their own unique PCB. I
> want to combine the two existing PCB layouts into a single new PCB
> layout.
>
> Here's the problem: there are common component designators between both
> schematics. For example, there is a diode D1 in schematic/PCB #1, and
> a diode D1 also in schematic/PCB #2.
> This is the case for several hundred component designators on both
> boards.
>
> I've tried to combine the two schematics together, which changes the
> component designators for schematic #2. As a result, when I try to
> stitch the two PCB layouts together, I'm unable to generate an ECO
> update, since the component designators no longer match.
>
> Has anybody had this problem before? I'd appreciate *any* feedback
> that might help me solve this problem.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> minus3db
>
>