theHermes
Newbie level 6
I am presently working on a PCB design for a sensor and I have just started learning Capture CIS and PCB Editor.
I completed the schematic in OrCAD Capture and cleared all my DRC errors. I have also succeeded in creating a netlist and thereby exporting it to PCB editor.
At this stage, I have a query viz. even though I have filled in the PCB footprint for the components in Capture CIS, I am not able to view the footprints in Editor as the software is not able to understand the footprint.
Eg:
for a surface mounted resistor I gave the footprint SM/R_0603 . No wonder it worked as there was no SM/R_0603.dra file in the pcb library.
In the footprint library, I found res400.dra,res500.dra,res600.dra etc. But I think these components are through hole devices as I am guessing 400 indicates the height. Can someone explain to me what these res400,cap196,capck62 are? I want to understand how to choose which component and how are these components named?
I have read the IPC standard naming convention but I do not think these have been implemented in the library as there is mismatch between the naming of libraries and IPC convention standard.
My circuit contains:
2resistors of 1K and 2 ceramic capacitors of 0.1uF and 10uF.
Sorry, if my question looks silly as I am just starting to work with PCB editor.
Thanks in advance.
I completed the schematic in OrCAD Capture and cleared all my DRC errors. I have also succeeded in creating a netlist and thereby exporting it to PCB editor.
At this stage, I have a query viz. even though I have filled in the PCB footprint for the components in Capture CIS, I am not able to view the footprints in Editor as the software is not able to understand the footprint.
Eg:
for a surface mounted resistor I gave the footprint SM/R_0603 . No wonder it worked as there was no SM/R_0603.dra file in the pcb library.
In the footprint library, I found res400.dra,res500.dra,res600.dra etc. But I think these components are through hole devices as I am guessing 400 indicates the height. Can someone explain to me what these res400,cap196,capck62 are? I want to understand how to choose which component and how are these components named?
I have read the IPC standard naming convention but I do not think these have been implemented in the library as there is mismatch between the naming of libraries and IPC convention standard.
My circuit contains:
2resistors of 1K and 2 ceramic capacitors of 0.1uF and 10uF.
Sorry, if my question looks silly as I am just starting to work with PCB editor.
Thanks in advance.