Article - CS352742

When trying to open a Mentor Graphics PCB file (*.pcb) and selecting the product Mentor Expedition PCB an error message is reported in Creo View

Modified: 10-Nov-2023   


Applies To

  • Creo View 7.1 to 10.0
  • Mentor Graphics (Siemens)

Description

  • When trying to open a Mentor Graphics PCB file (*.pcb) and selecting the product Mentor Expedition PCB an error message is reported in Creo View

    Error
    Import error - sdd_home environment variable not set make sure native mentor expedition tool is correctly installed on your machine.

    or

    Error in Creo View debugging PVIEW_PROC_TRACE.log file (for example)

    Error   12:9:29.191  9 Nov 2023 22360 17148 du Process FAILED to launch   ""C:\MentorGraphics\EEVX.2.11\SDD_HOME\common\C:\MentorGraphics\EEVX.2.11\win64\bin\LayoutDB2HKP.exe" -i "<folder path>\LayoutDB.lyt" -o <folder path>\AppData\Local\Temp\1\PTCgtgjf2gk6a3s0\vbascii\Layout.hkp" Error   "The system cannot find the file specified.".

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