[SOLVED] Netlist repeats part name, making it longer than 31 character

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Hi,

I am new to Orcad 16.6 (I have been using Orcad 10.5 before) and have difficulty with creating netlist for PCB Editor. I created a simple schematic with few components in it. None of the components' name are longer than 31 characters. However, when I generate netlist I get the following warnings:

For some reason, capture is concatenating each part name three times, making it longer than 31 character, and then truncates them. Because of this renaming, I cannot link the logic to the board (.brd file) as well. Please help as I am stuck here.

Thanks.
 

I already tried that. For whatever reason, increasing the Name Char Limit has no effect!
 

Ok, I think I found a work around for this problem as below:

If you get the ORCAP-36006 warning when trying to generate netlist, you need to open a DOS command window, add the –l 255 switch to the netlist generator command (put it after the –v 3 command) and run it.

For example, if you get the following message in Capture after generating the netlist:

"C:\Cadence\Allegro16.6_InstallationFolder\tools\capture\pstswp.exe" -pst -d "D:\TEMP\SCHEMATICS\TEST2.DSN" -n "D:\TEMP\SCHEMATICS\allegro" -c "C:\Cadence\Allegro16.6_InstallationFolder\tools/capture/allegro.cfg" -v 3 -j "PCB Footprint" -hpath "HPathForCollision" –lite

Then you need to run the following command in the DOS command window:

"C:\Cadence\Allegro16.6_InstallationFolder\tools\capture\pstswp.exe" -pst -d "D:\TEMP\SCHEMATICS\TEST2.DSN" -n "D:\TEMP\SCHEMATICS\allegro" -c "C:\Cadence\Allegro16.6_InstallationFolder\tools/capture/allegro.cfg" -v 3 –l 255 -j "PCB Footprint" -hpath "HPathForCollision" -lite

After doing so, just go to PCB editor and import logic as usual. You are done.
 

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