Fellow Cadnetix/VeriBest Designers, We are in the process of converting over, and have a couple of issues we could use a little help since we did not get an appropriate answer from VeriBest we thought the design community could help. 1. Hardware items, in CDX we put hardware symbols on a last schematic sheet that did not get plotted and had to have a shape for the board but just did not get placed. Veribest has a category "Psuedo Comps" but this does not seem to work well. I understand about the discards file, that this will not put cells on the board but it does not seem to work when we put all the other PDB items on it to show up in a parts list/bom. How do we drive a parts list out of the board design/schematic in other words puts a part number description and qty on a bom but no cell is placed on the board. 2.Metric Cad database; also in this process we thought it might be a good time to bite this bullet. Our next gen. system requirements are mostly all in metric. How are people handling this. Did you have all your databases in metric in Cadnetix, did you do a change as you converted, did you stay in Inches in Veribest or what???? What is the impact of doing all new cells in metric, keeping local libraries just for converted boards??? Or will the conversion of an inches CDX board work going over to metric cells in Veribest?? I also sent to VeriBest Users Group hoping for help there too. Thanks In Advance Bob Wolfe Executone [log in to unmask] ################################################################ DesignerCouncil E-Mail Forum provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ################################################################ To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE DesignerCouncil <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF DesignerCouncil ################################################################ Please visit IPC web site (http://jefry.ipc.org/forum.htm) for additional information. For the technical support contact Dmitriy Sklyar at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.311 ################################################################