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Outjob file

adam.nickerson

Tried to follow the video made by Altium for reusing Outjob settings but the only Outjob file I found was in the history folder and it was archived. I tried save this into main folder with the other files but when I generate outputs it does not appear to be using the Outjob file. The video from Altium was from 2020 using version 1.4. I am using 1.5.2 now. Did Altium drop this capability? I did find something on the forum from 5 years ago similar to what the video suggested but they were altering the file in a text editor. Anybody have luck reusing Outjob files and/or modifying the file in a text editor?

  • 0

    Maybe check that the project file is using the named Outjob file.  I know if you rename a project (e.g. save project as...) then the outjob file is not renamed.  The project may then be using the outjob file with the old name.

    You should be able to look at the project file with a text editor and see what name it uses.

    It should work to edit the files but make a back up copy before you do it just to be safe.

  • 0 in reply to tarribred61

    I did verify the name was correct. I tried a simple mode to the file in a text editor and saved it. I then generated outputs again. Within the history folder a new Outjob file was generated and archived but it does not reflect the changes I made to the Outjob file and the change I made (modified a name in the BOM) did not change the output. Do you have version 1.5.2 and can you verify that you can use a Outjob file reuse settings from another project? I remember seeing in previous versions of Circuit Studio it would generate the Outjob file and it would be located with the other project documents (schematics, PCBs) but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. I'm under the suspicion that they removed this on purpose.

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    +1 Former Member in reply to adam.nickerson

    For what it's worth I checked this on 1.5.2 and the .OutJob file is definitely in the project and is updated when outputs are generated. The strange thing is that the file isn't being generated in your project directory, and I found that there are two references to the .OutJob file path in the project (.PrjPcb) file, although I can't find which program menu is supposed to edit them.

    Check where these are pointing to, in my case it's just the project folder, i.e. DocumentPath=ProjectName.OutJob, and OutputJobFileName1=ProjectName.OutJob.

  • 0 in reply to adam.nickerson

    I'm not sure why you only have an OutJob file in the history folder.  I have always seen these in the project folder.

  • 0 in reply to Former Member

    Good call with checking the .PrjPcb file. This is a new revision in version control and the in the .PrjPcb file is still pointing to the Outjob file from the old version. I modified the .PrjPCB file to remove the leading file path and leave only the .OutJob file with its file name. I generated new outputs and then checked the PrjPCB file and it did not revert to the previous file path and the outputs were generated successfully with the changes I made.

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member in reply to adam.nickerson

    I don't know why this occurs, but the .PrjPCB file seems to contain lots of stuff (probably from Designer) that isn't accessible via the stripped down menus in CircuitStudio, and have to be edited manually when weird stuff happens.