Hi,
We have 3 license for PADS, 2 as USB dongle license, one as floating License. Recently we updated the license file, downloaded "Mentor_License_Utility", and successfully installed the license to two dongle machines. But we don't know how to install it to the floating license. We tried to run the Mentor_License_Utility in pc and it didn't work. Do anyone have an idea? Do we need to run the utility in the server?
Regards,
Yi
A question from Mentor Japan AE Motonami-san is working with a customer who is planning their upgrade strategy.
I have a question in regarding Capital System requirement.
In the system requirement document of Capital 2015.1 in below, you can see the difference between the formulas where the explanation says 1.2 but the examples use 0.8.
Calculating Oracle drive space requirements
The following formula can be used to calculate the recommended drive space to be allocated to
the Oracle database.
Recommended drive space (GB) = 1.2 x VPs x REVs x WireMF
Where:
6 Capital & VeSys 2.0 2015.1 System Requirements
February 2016
VPs = Expected number of vehicle programs
REVs = Expected average number of revisions per design in a vehicle program
WireMF = Number of wires in thousands (rounded up) in a program without revisions (e.g. if expected number of wires is 29,890 then WireMF=30. If expected number of wires is 2,500 then WireMF = 3)
Example 1
When calculating the storage requirements for the next 5 years of a single vehicle program with 1,300 wires and 6 revisions (2 revisions in the first year and 1 revisions per year for every year after that), the formula states:
Recommended drive space (GB) = 0.8 x 1 x 6 x 1.3 = 6.24 GB
Example 2
When calculating the storage requirements for the next 5 years of a single vehicle program with 300,000 wires and 215 revisions (200 revisions for the first two years and 5 revisions per year for every year after that), the formula states:
Recommended drive space (GB) = 0.8 x 1 x 215 x 300 = 51,600 GB
Thank you and best regards.
Pat (for Motonami-san who like some other AEs cannot currently access this forum)
Is it possible now to add a component from the central library?
How can I add a cell from central library into the local library using Automation?
Hi all
I work on 12 layers big pcb layout board and now when i close to finish i notice that i have some traces that loks like they are locked
when i tuch it with the mouse i get lock symbol but i can not unlock or delete it in any mode (rout or draw
can someone help in that
i work on Xpedition VX1.1
Currently we note an effect in an existing project during the update of the property @PRINTORDER which we can not explain.
We procedures as follows:
1. Generating the required PageOrder.txt
2. Invoke Tools / Update other Objects... with the settings "Properties = on", "Print Order = on", Range = Project"
3. The @PRINTORDER property of each border receives the correct page number
After this, the scout is able to place the correct sheet number on the border by reading the @PRINTORDER property. So far so good.
Then, we add a new block on the top sheet which includes new sheets. These sheets have also the same borders as the other sheets of the project, where the update of the @PRINTORDER property worked without any problems.
We did the same procedure like above:
1. Generating the required PageOrder.txt
2. Invoke Tools / Update other Objects... with the settings "Properties = on", "Print Order = on", Range = Project"
3. The @PRINTORDER property of the old borders receives the correct page number. But the @PRINTORDER property of the borders of the new sheets received nothing and are empty.
I checked the "Setup / Settings / Sheet Numbering" - everythink is ok.
I add a new sheet in an old block. This sheet receives the correct value and is assigned to the @PRINTORDER property.
There is only the problem with new blocks and its underlying sheets.
Have anybody any idea and can explain this behavior?
Is anyone using c or c++ for automation? It would be nice to see some examples of accessing the database.
Thanks!
Hello,
we are facing a node-locked license issue after changing from LM_LICENSE_FILE environment variable to MGLS_LICENSE_FILE.
New license file (with new format) was downloaded from SupportNet.
Environment variable MGLS_LICENSE_FILE was exported:
export MGLS_LICENSE_FILE=/home/fusion/target.lic
But following error is reported:
The license manager error is:
No such feature exists.
Feature: gcc_ARM_GNULinux
License path: /opt/Gen3TC/MentorGraphics/Sourcery_CodeBench_for_ARM_Embedded/libexec/gcc/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/4.8.3/../../../../license/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/target.lic:/home/fusion/target.lic:
FLEXnet Licensing error:-5,357
For further information, refer to the FLEXnet Licensing documentation,
available at "www.flexerasoftware.com".
Your host ID(s) are: 0025646be203
arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc: error: /opt/Gen3TC/MentorGraphics/Sourcery_CodeBench_for_ARM_Embedded/bin/../libexec/gcc/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/4.8.3/cs-license: non-zero exit status
make: *** [bt_appl/state_manager/audio_state.o] Error 1
Any idea what we are doing wrong? Is it possible that there are some old data from previous license handling which has to be removed?
Is there any further information we can provide to come closer to the root cause?
Many thanks,
tino
I have been asked to recreate a board from a gerber data and a schematic. They provided an older version of the board so basically I have been checking it against the schematic and gbr files. Layers 2 and 3 are planes with lines drawn to isolate agnd and gnd copper. The problems I am having are with thermals generated for agnd. On the gerber files all pads (agnd) are creating thermals on layer 3 however only 2 of the pads create thermals on layer 2 the rest are not connected. Is there a way to have a pad create to a plane on one layer and not another?
On the old file layer 3 is defined as (agnd) plane and layer 2 is defined as (gnd) plane so my only guess is that they switched the 2 pads to gnd prior to running gerbers for layer 2 allowing the lines to partition the planes and than switched it back after wards.
My goal is to have layer 2 be a plane with agdn and gnd and only connect to agnd at those 2 points.
Thanks
Mike
We need to create a Two level directory in DxDataBook, which will help us to group parts better. For example, the top level will be capacitors [Second level: ceramic cap, Electrolytic cap, tantalum cap], resistors [Second level: Carbon film res, Variable res], Chip [Memory, buffer, level shifter]..., see attached pic for instance.
I have been using PADS2004sp2 for a long time, and even though I am registered and licensed for up to PADS9.2, I prefer the older version for several reasons. I realize that it is not officially supported on newer operating systems, and it installs and runs well on XP, I have also used it on Vista and Win7 with some finagling and updating of certain applications and DLLs. I have also gotten it to install and run on my Win8 laptop, but I discovered that the OLE connections between Logic and Layout (and presumably also Blaze router) no longer work. The error message is basically "cannot connect". I also have a utility which uses the OLE connection as described in the VB script examples, although this is created using Borland Delphi 4, and I also get an error message, with "OLE error 80040202". I have a desktop computer with Win7 that I plan to use for PCB design, but sometimes I like to work on the laptop, and I also might consider upgrading to Win10 if it will work. I tried to find information on what might have changed with the OLE server on Win8 from Win7, but no joy. Any ideas? Thanks!
Hi,
When I tried to simulate my design in Pyxis using Eldo/EZwave, I get the following error.
"wdb file not created"
Any suggestions..??
Regards,
Ram
I'm new to VeSys so forgive me if this is obvious, but I'm puzzled by the way data is organized in Vesys. It seems a strange design decision.
All our ECAD and MCAD libraries and projects are stored centrally. Is there any way to store VeSys data centrally, rather than in the install location, an obfuscated database?
I've read some threads about a tool called "Premigrate" but I can't find such a tool in the install folder.
Having to remember to output Xml every time I change a library item, or modify a project is pretty painful.
Cheers.
Hello,
Is it possible to attach a connector to more than one different device in Vesys 2.0? Suppose I have a connector called P707 attached to a device, DEV479 and I would like to add the same connector (so that it is cross-referenced) to a different device, DEV480. When I try this, I can't get the connector to attach to the second device.
Thanks,
When locking or fixing traces, the graphics for those traces do not change according to the settings in the Display Control under the Graphic tab > Fixed & Locked patterns. The display change does work correctly on vias.
Good day,
My customer want to create a custom plugins to map the cavity of a specific signal. But with a simple return of "true" in the method "match()" without any body, they having this error message;
Error: Custom Constraint: 'CavityMapConstraint' disabled due to plugin code error. Context: Cavity 1 - Slot Connector P209; Message: 'chs.cof.topology.physical.CAFVConnCavity cannot be cast to chs.cof.topology.physical.ITopoSignal';
This is the simple topology;
the code is;
public boolean match(IXSignal signal, IXConnector conn, IXCavityMappingResult result) {
return true;
}
The method "match()" has no requirement but they are having error, what is this error? and Cavity Mapping Constraint supposed to be looking just inline connector but it seems it also looking at a junction box connector, is this true?
Thank you,
Larry
I like to work with shared objects. But now I recognized a problem: A colleague made a copy of my design in the same project, because he wanted to create something similar. Then he
renamed all conductors, multicores devices and connectors. But when you make a copy of a design with shared objects, they are still shared in this copy. So he changed the names in my original designs, too. After a while I recognized this. We corrected my design again and unshared all shared objects in the copy.
I think it would be better and saver to have an option to unshare all shared objects automatically, when you make a copy of a design. I think this is the better way, because when there
is a shared conductor, it is connected after the copy to two other conductors (one time in the right design and one time in the copy...).
Is it possible to search for multiple of parts at the same time? In other words, I would like to upload a BOM into the PART QUEST search rather than one part number at a time.
im interested how clear are you designing.Sometimes its easier to accept DRCs then change CES/settings.