Component Value in OrCAD PCB Designer

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   Is there a way, that makes the footprint designer create an additional textmark (eg. below the one for the component reference) to display the component value on the assembly layer?

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dmonca Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Advanced User Joined: 13 Dec 2012 Location: Switzerland Status: Offline Points: 59	Post Options Post Reply Quote dmonca Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Component Value in OrCAD PCB Designer Posted: 22 Feb 2013 at 5:07am
	Is there a way, that makes the footprint designer create an additional textmark (eg. below the one for the component reference) to display the component value on the assembly layer?



jameshead Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Expert User Joined: 20 Mar 2012 Location: Oxfordshire, UK Status: Offline Points: 576	Post Options Post Reply Quote jameshead Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 07 Mar 2013 at 7:04am
	I don't know about OrCAD but certainly PADS and Pulsonix can do this though it's been removed from later versions of FPX. It was there very early in the beginning - and was in PCB Matrix's version of LP Wizard PADS ASCII output. Earlier PADS ASCII outputs included the Part Type attribute (I think that's what PADS calls it) that got "translated" to the Pulsonix <Part Name> attribute. This would be the part name in the library though, and was on the silkscreen layer. In this example below from a PADS .d file it's the Part-Type bit. SOD3716N M 0 0 1 3 20 0 2 1 "Geometry.Height" 1.35mm 0.45 0 0 0 1.2 0.12 27 17 42 REF-DES 0 0 0 0 1.5 0.15 26 17 42 REF-DES 0 0 0 0 1.5 0.15 26 17 43 PART-TYPE I guess changing 26 to 27 would do what you want but you'd have to amend the text position as well from 0,0 0 0 0 0 1.5 0.15 27 17 43 PART-TYPE In Pulsonix it wouldn't be difficult to add this attribute on any layer in a footprint just using "insert attribute" command. I wouldn't want it on my assembly drawing though since it would make them too uncluttered and the text size would be unreadable. If it were included in any PADS ASCII output from FPX I'd just delete it like I deleted it before.