Roberts II, Charles K. said:
> 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.

That's probably the only reason. PADS will drop any part that it does not
have in the library, and any associated pin pairs are dropped as well.

Frustrating but it does make you keep your library synced between
schematic and pcb.

Cheerful regards,

Bob

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