Altium behaving strangely. - Page 1
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author: kvresto
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 22, 2015, 01:21:01 am
content: Hi Everyone.I’ve been working on a PCB project with Altium and I’ve just come across a strange problem. For the first time in this project, when I make a change to my schematic, and compile and update my PCB, all of my components seem to re-import themselves into the PCB workspace as if this is a brand new design and never routed. Does anyone know what has gone wrong?KV

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 22, 2015, 02:40:07 am
content: Did you do a full reannotate while you had broken links ?Try thisGo to pcb. Project -> componentinksHit the button to move all to the left columnThen click the button to link by designator.That should restore the links

author: kvresto
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 22, 2015, 06:29:02 am
content: I did that, and I have gotten the same results, all of my components have bee re-imported complete with rooms, all nicely sitting in their room ready to be placed and routed,...how frustrating, anything else I can do?kv

author: T3sl4co1l
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 22, 2015, 07:34:42 am
content: Delete them all and re-import? Then re-re-import to see if it worked?What's the ECO saying it's updating?Tim

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 22, 2015, 11:49:06 am
content: That is very strange.You must have done some operation to let altium believe the components are gone.Did you explode any compinents to primitives while they were all selected ?Did you do a group edit on designators so they are all blank ?Anyway, altium keeps copies of your work. Go to the project history manager and roll back one or two versions and see if the problem goes away.

author: kvresto
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 22, 2015, 10:01:57 pm
content: Well, I haven't got a clue on what I did to cause the problem, I was routing for ages, I had to swap two wires around on a chip, and when I recompiled and updated it all went very bad. Who knows what steps I performed in between.Finally I recreated a new project, included my schematic and PCB file, and order was restored to the Universe. I just hope the problem doesn't came back.Thanks for your help.kv

author: SArepairman
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 22, 2015, 10:07:21 pm
content: I had this happen and I don't renumber how I fixed it (though free electron did help). It fixed it for like 90% of my parts, some fuse would keep resetting itself but I just waited for the final spin to position it... easier to pretend its not happening so long its not like 15 parts doing it.

author: kvresto
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 22, 2015, 10:11:53 pm
content: In my situation all parts were moved off the PCB area.I should also say that the PCB and schematic files were first created in Protel 98, so I think this must be the cause of my problem.kv

author: Gandalf_Sr
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 06, 2015, 11:38:21 am
content: Reading this makes me glad that I now use Diptrace