Library Transfer from Ulitcap & Ultiboard 2001 to NI Circuit Design Suite 10

[Jim@Elec_Solutions]

Hi there,

I have recently upgraded to the NI Circuit Design Suite 10 from Ulticap & Ultiboard 2001.

I loved the old software so much that it broke my heart when it started to fail me causing me to upgrade, I never had any issue's with this software OK Ultiboard 2001 did regulary crash (Every 5 Minutes) but I learned how to get round this and used it in Anger on many many occasions.

But this has now left me with a Dilema.

I have Customer Librarys, and Schematics in Ulticap which I am unable to Import into Mutisim, and when I do they are not displayed correctly same as Ultiboard 2001, yes I can view the files but I am yet again unable to Import the Librarys

Has anyone else ever had this issue, and if so could they talk me through it.

I wish the software had never changed, as I always hated "EWB" as I never found it reliable enough when I was college, and I am now seeing it as part of my favourite software, but I suppose this is progress.

So all of my settings are wrong and I am as of yet unable to how to alter them back to how I liked to work, so on a recent design I stopped using Multisim and went back to Ulticap it was quicker and easier to use, but I not prepared to throw £2,000 away, so any assistance on this would me much appreciated.

[nestor-sg]

Jim,

To import a library of components from Ulticap into Multisim 10, try dropping all those components in a Ulticap project file, save it, and then open it from Multisim 10. If it does not prompts you to save the components, then try right-click on them and save the component to your user database.

The database convert utility from Multisim 10, supports only Multisim databases from version 6 (2001) to 9, but not Ulticap.

[Jim@Elec_Solutions]

Hi there,

I had a funny feeling some one was going to say that, you see when I obtained the package recently I was promised that everything would work exactly the same as before, and of course nothing does.

Got a funny feeling I might be asking for my Money Back, as I just totally hate the New Software, perhaps in time I might learn to love it, but at the moment it is fighting me all the way.

[Ralf@mibtec]

Hi Jim!

I am very pleased to read about your problems - i suffer the same sh.. since the last 3 days. Oh god give us UltiCap back!

We found out that our Components (mostly ATMEL Prozessors, RAMs, Powerdevices from  SGS and so on) failed in MultiSim.

I tried the following way:

Put the UltCap Library on a sheet, read with MultiSim and the put the Components to the new Database.

At the moment it is a total desaster!

The Pin descriptors (e.g. CLK or VCC ) shift their locations. Ok no Problem. Open the Component in MultiSim with the Editor and shift the descriptors back.

Everything looks fine in the Editor - save it.

The Component now looks good even in MultiSim - now the next Step => Save this Component to the User-Database.

This is done easily with some more clicks (allways clicking around..).

No the Test.

Place the Component out the Database.

Desaster!

The Pin descriptors shift again AND the worse thing the PIN numbers arew totaly mixed up (e.g. VCC = PIN 30 is then PIN 12 and so on..)

I tried for 2 days now. I can't believe it.

A long time i hoped to come around this update and thougt NI will make the EWB-Stuff more professionel but it is going worse i think at the moment.

Very bad that they offer no actual Libs to buy. The handfull of processors the offer is just stuff for students end even they would lough about it.

We had to make designs and were awaiting a real tool - but MultiSim is it not.

Anyway if it works converting the Libs are you interessting in exchanging the UserDatabases?

Would be nice to here from you!

Best Regards

Ralf from mibtec.de