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Annotation not Updating PCB and Cross Probe mode not exiting

pcat

Hi I have some issues with a design consisting of 7 sheets that causes some components in the PCB file not to have nets attached I think because of Annotation not forwarding correctly.

This appears to be on Capacitors, they appear on the PCB file but with no nets and some based on component identifier e.g. C29 are connected to the incorrect Net.

These are the same components (Library part and some okay some not) and from the Altium Vault, all my own Libraries appear fine as with other parts.

The project compiles with not errors.

 

To try and identify the issue I am using the cross probe feature from the schematic and PCB, when using it on PCB file it finds the corresponding symbol in the schematic sheets

and I can exit from it.

But when using Cross probe from Schematic it finds the component on the PCB file and Grays out the rest, but I cannot find a way of exiting this mode to get my PCB back, I can Cross probe

again but I have to close the PCB file and reopen.

I'm using two monitors not split screen.

Any suggestions on either please ?

 

I have been using for Two weeks now and all in all very nice software.

 

Regards

 

Paul

  • Okay found the answer for the cross probe from schematic to PCB.

    Escape from Cross probe but you have to also click the schematic symbol again and the PCB is back.

    So I have tried the reverse on the PCB to Schematic as that worked with just an Esc however this has stopped working.

    It appears once a cross probe to the PCB has been performed the PCB to Schem Cross probe stops working.?

    Tried on split screen as well as dual screen.

  • Hi Paul, good to hear you are liking the software.

     

    The primary method of ensuring the schematic and PCB match is to use Tools > Component Links in the PCB editor, any components that do not match between the schematic and PCB will be listed and you can fix.

     

    To exit cross probe when probing into the PCB you need to click View > Clear to clear the filter that is used to highlight the component.

  • in reply to e14softwareuk

    Hi thankyou  for the quick response, the clear filter did the trick, not an obvious one  

     

    However when I try the component links (I forgot I had tried this in the past ) This happens

    It get an error message, I have sent the report as the message box prompts.

     

    Access violation at address 00B6D0FE in module 'DXP.EXE'. Read of address 00000008 at 00B6D0FE.

     

    Exception Occurred In  DocumentOptions

     

    Maybe I have a corrupt file ?

  • in reply to pcat

    Your certainly should not be getting access violation errors. It could be something about your PC setup or a corruption in the documents. If you wish to send the schematic and PCB to me (direct to my email) I will take a look and see if I can reproduce the error. If reproducible I will be able to report to Altium as a potential bug.

  • in reply to e14softwareuk

    Hello Paul,

     

    It is a good idea on projects to verify that all the schematic and PCB components are matched and the edit component links tool (from the PCB menus) is the way to do that.  So you know, the schematic and PCB instances of a a component have a unique ID code that match.  When you cut and paste parts and then edit and change the reference designators, these unique codes end up not matching.  What you are doing with the tool is rematching them based on the check boxes for designator, command and footprint.

     

    You can learn more by Google search on Altium and unique ID.  Here is a link to a relevant page. http://www.altium.com/documentation/17.0/display/ADES/((Annotating+the+Components))_AD

     

    Here are properties of the schematic.

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    And here is the PCB instance.

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