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Hi Chrisa,

OK, thanks for looking into this.
I'll try to chase Cadence, see what they can do.

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Hi guys!

We also use decimal-comma instead of decimal-point for regional settings.
This leads to that generating footprints in OrCAD Professional 17.2-2016 S012 from PCB Library Expert v. 2016.14 will NOT work.

As I see it OrCAD can handle regional settings, such as decimal-comma, but PCB LE can not.

We cannot accept this and need a fix instead of workarounds.

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Good news from a Cadence reseller:

I’m just writing to let you know I got feedback on the case I filed to Cadence with respect to this issue and it should get fixed with 17.2s013 – I expect this to be out sometime during the weekend of 18th – 19th of February.


The problem is not Library Expert, it's on the Cadence side and they are fixing their bug.
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... but still the scripts you are generating have decimal point instead of decimal comma, despite of regional settings. When I change the point to comma, the scripts works fine in OrCAD.

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Originally posted by Tom H Tom H wrote:

I’m just writing to let you know I got feedback on the case I filed to Cadence with respect to this issue and it should get fixed with 17.2s013 – I expect this to be out sometime during the weekend of 18th – 19th of February.
Hi Tom, that's great news.
Thanks for chasing this.

I'm wondering how they will 'fix' this, since to me it seems that switching to regional settings was intended by Cadence.
But we'll see.
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... but still the scripts you are generating have decimal point instead of decimal comma, despite of regional settings. When I change the point to comma, the scripts works fine in OrCAD.
Hi Benn, as Tom said this is really a Cadence issue, not PCB libraries. The decimal point as seperator has always been there, only Cadence changed it recently.
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Well, generally speaking Benn is right: Library Expert doesn't support regional settings (i.e. point is hardcoded as decimal separator). And once Cadence finally caught up with the world it broke import from Library Expert. So ideally Library Expert needs to be changed to use decimal separator from the regional settings but at least there are workarounds.
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OK, fair point.
However, then Cadence has to be consistent all over, so not only for the Pad designer script needs to use the regional setting, but also for the Orcad PCB script (which still uses the fixed dot as seperator).
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It seems that OrCAD padstack editor obeys regional settings, but when I changed to decimal comma in all .scr files, the generated footprint was not correct/complete.
It looks that there are still some issues with decimal comma in OrCAD.

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One of the customers put in a ticket on this a bit ago and received an email that Cadence is working on the comma issue for S013 and that they expect the fix to be available like Feb 18th or 19th.

So we'll see what they come up with before doing anything.
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Hi all,

I just tried hotfix 17.2s013, and I can confirm that this hotfix fixes this issue.
Apparently they reverted back to fixed dot as decimal seperator.
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