Export UB10 user database

[kittmaster]

I thought both MS and UB databases were combined, but when I brought by user database in my merge database, the UB footprints didn't follow.

I've gone through the great pains of rebuilding my UB database and I want to properly export it like MS does. How is this done??????????

Why isn't there an export option? Anyone?

Message Edited by kittmaster on 07-20-2007 11:29 AM

[nestor-sg]

Muiltisim and Ultiboard share the same file for the database, however the file is partitioned and looks for different places depending on which program you are.

If you are importing a user database, try doing a Convert from Ultiboard as well.

Otherwise, please give us more details...

1. From Multisim you see the components... except with no custom footprints?

2. From Ultiboard do you see your user database footprints?..

Check this link and see if it helps...

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/5631#toc10

[kittmaster]

My parts are in MS but there are no footprints in UB. That is one of the questions you asked, that is the problem I need to fix....

Chris

[nestor-sg]

Chris, I'm not sure I did understand the process you were following to merge this new database. Please be specific:

1. Is this a version 9 database that you are converting and importing into version 10?

2. Is this a version 10 database that was created in another computer or license and you are trying to merge it to your current version 10 database using the Merge function?

3. Or, you are not doing anything of the above and you created footprints in Ultiboard that you can't see in Multisim? If so, did you checked the link I posted previously?

Please let me know so I can try to reproduce the exact procedure you are describing.

[kittmaster]

At this point all of my databases are rebuilt in ver 10 as the were in version 9.

So, example. I've created the LM3914 with its spice model in MS10, it also has a footprint that is linked to UB.

Now, if I export the MS database as a prz file, the UB footprint data.....is it there?

In version 9 when this setup was exactly as described above for version 10, when I exported the V9 database, it only save the MS data!!

I know this because when I tried to import my V9 database into V10, its said invalid format. And of course there is NOTHING in the help file to tell you how to handle this error.....basically if your screwed if you have no intitive to comb through forum (which is how I found my partial solution) to use the "convert database" function which then took the V9 database and converted it to V10. The only data that was imported was the MS data/spice info. The UB9 footprint data never came in.

I had to MANUALLY rebuild every single part from the ground up because there seems to be no way to export UB footprints in the fashion that MS9/10 does for its parts.

I understand that they are "partition" but it seems the focus is directly on MS functionality and little on the UB but yet they are supposed to be "interlinked". That doesn't seem to be the case here.

I have not tried to export version 10 databases and try to reimport them because I don't want to have to go through the headache of starting from ground zero..............again

If you need more help, you can contact me via my email and I can give you a direct line to help clarify or to speed this issue up.

Thanks

Chris

[nestor-sg]

Chris, can you send us your database to ewbsupport@ni.com ? I would like to do the import on my computer...

[kittmaster]

I've attached it here, I'll send via email also

Chris

[nestor-sg]

This seems to be the reason. PRZ files do not carry any footprints, they only carry footprint references. They are a Multisim-only feature. The correct way to migrate your version 9 User (or corporate) database to version 10, is to have version 10 run the Tools > Database > convert database function... locate the old v9 database on its original location and then run the conversion. Version 10 brings everything that is on your v9 database (components and footprints) into the installed v10 user database.

After running this procedure you should see in Multisim v10 your custom components and in Ultiboard your custom footprints.

[9831418]

sir can i have the circuit/database of LM3914 for multisim 10...Its not there in the master database and i badly require that I.C for my project

thanking you

pramit

[niloy]

Can anyone help me to build IC LM3914, I used NI Multisim version 11 and I am new user. Pls help me with this......