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10 years ago

New Project Template

Hi,

I'm using Qii v14.1, and tried to use the "New project wizard" to create a new project. When proceed to page "Project Type" => Select the type of project to create, I select "Project template", then click "Next". On page "Design Template", I select "MAX 10 Evaluation Kit Baseline Design", then click "Next", then "Finish". However, a dialog box pops up, says "Can't open project -- can't find Quartus II Project File project_name.qpf", with a OK button. Then I checked the project's target directory, and found it really missed the .qpf project file.

Any one can help? this seems quite unexpected.

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    Altera_Forum
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    10 years ago

    Hi,

    If you want to use any design, you need to download the corresponding .par file from Design Store > Design Examples. You need to install the required .par file on "Design Template" page(option 2) in your target directory, then "Next", then "Finish". Then you can proceed as you wish.
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    10 years ago

    Thanks for the reply Kparate. However, "MAX 10 Evaluation Kit Baseline Design" is preinstalled in Qii V14.1. Also, I tried to download other designs from the Design Store > Design Examples, and then installed them, the same error prompt occurs. Can you please try the New project template on your side? thank you so much.

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    10 years ago

    The pre-installed version seems to have some error. That's why i asked you to download it from Design Store. And I replied you after i ran it on my system. I dont know why you are getting that error. Tell me, do you get a new template installed when you install the .par file? Check the attached image. The red square is the pre-intalled Max 10 Eval kit design & the black square is new installed Max 10 Eval kit design that I installed after downloading the .par file from Design Store.

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    10 years ago

    AM

    Dear kparate,

    Your success encouraged me. Then I found the problem I had was that I didn't install the .par file. Now the problem is fixed after I intalled the "BeMicro_MAX10_Baseline.par".

    It's strange that after I clicked add the installation directory to the design template search paths (http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/on_platform_path) and select the directory where I stored the downloaded .par files, the "Available design template" will show them in the list, as if they're ready for use! this led to my previous mistake. This maybe a s/w bug which may confuse the user.

    Thanks for your kind help.

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    10 years ago

    Dear Kparate, sorry for the late reply. I fixed the problem now according to your kind tips, thanks a lot!

    In fact, I was misled by Qii since the Available templates will list all my downloaded .par files so I thought it was not necessary to install them.

    Now I installed the downloaded .par files and the new project using project template works fine!

    Thanks again.

    David.
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    10 years ago

    Hi David,

    I am glad that it worked out well. Always happy to help. You can also try downloading other examples from Design Store and intall them the same way as above.