OrCAD has all these hard coded paths embedded in the design files. I hired an engineer to do the initial design of a board and he worked off-site on his own machine. But now that I want to alter the design, when I work on it on my machine, I get errors relating to the paths that refer to his file structure. Is there a way around this problem?
Not much help after the fact, but I have always used subst to subst a drive letter to the root of my design directory. I typically use drive letter O:., so all my paths are o:\\subdir\\file.sch etc. If one wants to work on another machine or from another drive, one simply deletes the substitution, and redefine it so that O: again points to the root of the design files.
Regards Anton Erasmus
Are you talking about Capture or Layout? If Layout, you need to keep the .MNL file with your design (.MAX file) and do a reload (AutoECO) of the MNL file when you move the design. It's a good idea to reload the MNL file just before you think your layout is ready to go. Version
10 Layout has some very scary bugs which alter the net list table in the MAX file. I've seen this a few times.Capture doesn't have paths in the data files if you just pass the DSN OPJ file between you and the other guy.
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