User Guide

Interfacing to Board Layout Products
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Creating a Layout Netlist
1 From the Tools menu, select Create Layout Netlist.
Note If you are using the Orcad line of products, you will be preparing
the netlist as input to Orcad Layout. Although Schematics does not
generate a netlist file (.MNL) that is directly compatible with
Layout, you can create a netlist file that Layout will be able to
process.
To create a netlist for Orcad Layout
1 Follow the procedure above to select a layout format,
and select the PADS format.
2 From the Tools menu, select Create Layout Netlist.
The netlist will be created with the name
<SCHEMATIC>.PAD.
3 Run Orcad Layout.
4 In Layout, from the File menu, click Import, then
choose PADS PCB as the type of netlist to be imported.
5 In the text box Input PADS ASCII file, browse the
directories and select the PADS netlist file you created,
<SCHEMATIC>.PAD.
6 In the text box Output Layout MAX file, enter the
name of the new Layout netlist file you wish to create.
7 Click OK to start the translation process.
Layout will then read the netlist file and convert it into
the appropriate format that can be imported into the
Layout Editor.
For more specific instructions on how to import a netlist
file into Layout, see the Orcad Layout User’s Guide.