hobbss
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I am attempting to create a silk screen for my pcb in OrCAD 16.3.
I have tried two methods:
1. Manually selecting all of the silk screen subclasses with the display color editor, and then adding a new layer to the artwork tab
2. Running the silk screen generator (sorry for using an Expedition term), which, as I understand it, grabs all the silkscreen subclasses and dumps them in a single class "autosilk_top".
In both cases, I can see both the component outlines, pin 1 designators, manual text, and refdes's on the screen (i.e., when only "autosilk_top" is enabled). However, when I create the artwork, the text never makes it through. All of the component outlines, the pin 1 designators, et al make it to the art file. However, absolutely no text (either refdes's or my manual text) makes it through. Is this because my text doesn't have "width"? If so, how do I add width?
Is there something else I am missing?
---------- Post added at 09:31 ---------- Previous post was at 08:58 ----------
Follow up:
To anyone who has this problem:
I am unsure if this is the "right" way to do it, but it seems to work.
The text has zero width by default. It seems like this is most likely an error I made when I created the footprints (for the refdes's), and the manual text (i.e., rev number), when I added it to the board.
I ran the auto silk generator. I then turned off all objects but the autosilk_top layer. I set my find filter to text only. I selected all of the text on the board, and went to Quick Utilities --> Design Parameters. On the text tab, I selected Setup Text Sizes. In the resultant window, I set the Photo Width field to 5 for all of the text. The next time I created the silk screen layer art file, it had all of my text.
For the record, it would be nice if the log file denoted that it was throwing a way text due to zero width (like it does for lines)...
I have tried two methods:
1. Manually selecting all of the silk screen subclasses with the display color editor, and then adding a new layer to the artwork tab
2. Running the silk screen generator (sorry for using an Expedition term), which, as I understand it, grabs all the silkscreen subclasses and dumps them in a single class "autosilk_top".
In both cases, I can see both the component outlines, pin 1 designators, manual text, and refdes's on the screen (i.e., when only "autosilk_top" is enabled). However, when I create the artwork, the text never makes it through. All of the component outlines, the pin 1 designators, et al make it to the art file. However, absolutely no text (either refdes's or my manual text) makes it through. Is this because my text doesn't have "width"? If so, how do I add width?
Is there something else I am missing?
---------- Post added at 09:31 ---------- Previous post was at 08:58 ----------
Follow up:
To anyone who has this problem:
I am unsure if this is the "right" way to do it, but it seems to work.
The text has zero width by default. It seems like this is most likely an error I made when I created the footprints (for the refdes's), and the manual text (i.e., rev number), when I added it to the board.
I ran the auto silk generator. I then turned off all objects but the autosilk_top layer. I set my find filter to text only. I selected all of the text on the board, and went to Quick Utilities --> Design Parameters. On the text tab, I selected Setup Text Sizes. In the resultant window, I set the Photo Width field to 5 for all of the text. The next time I created the silk screen layer art file, it had all of my text.
For the record, it would be nice if the log file denoted that it was throwing a way text due to zero width (like it does for lines)...