Hello fellow PIC Lister's The company I work for has just purchased the Mentor Graphics PADS 2003 PCB software for PCB layout. We currently use Orcad Capture V9.2.3 for schematic capture. =20 I have been trying to lay out a board with the software but when I import the Netlist from Orcad it drops a bunch of the nets. Part of this is because I am not sending the footprints to the PADS Software in the proper format.=20 My question is does anyone on the list use this software, and if you do you use it in conjunction with the Orcad Capture? And any tips or advice would be helpful. =20 Charles K Roberts II P.S I did read the manual, didn't find much there. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.