Altium behaving strangely.

[kvresto]

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

[free_electron]

Did you do a full reannotate while you had broken links ?

Try this

Go to pcb. Project -> componentinks
Hit the button to move all to the left column
Then click the button to link by designator.

That should restore the links

[kvresto]

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

[T3sl4co1l]

Delete them all and re-import?  Then re-re-import to see if it worked?

What's the ECO saying it's updating?

Tim

[free_electron]

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.

[kvresto]

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

[SArepairman]

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.

[kvresto]

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

[Gandalf_Sr]

Reading this makes me glad that I now use Diptrace