Creating a Support Package

You can create a package of zip files of your project directory to send to your Mentor Graphics Corporation support representative for troubleshooting.

You can create a package for either a concurrent design project or a local project. If you create a package from a concurrent design project, you can choose whether or not to include data from the other machines that connected to the project.

For security, you can exclude design data and only package support files.

The maximum size of a single zip file is one gigabyte, but you can set a lower maximum. For designs that are larger than the maximum size, the project splits into multiple zipped files (.zip, .z01, .z02, and so on).

Prerequisites

  • The project cannot be open in any other application.

Procedure

  1. Create a support package with Project > Create support package. The Create Support Package dialog box appears.
  2. Select whether to package a concurrent design project (Project) or a local project (Local) in the Package type list box. If you choose Project, you can enable/disable the Collect data from other machines from which the project was accessed check box.
  3. Enable or disable Package content categories.
  4. Enter the target location in the Package directory path text field where you want iCDB Project Backup to create the package (it will be a zip file).
  5. Specify the maximum size of a file in Max size of single package file.
  6. Enter a description for your package. The description is saved as a text file at the top level of the package.
  7. Click Create. The zip file appears where you specified.
  8. Send the zip file to Mentor Graphics Corporation as you have arranged with your support representative.