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Just checked the "how do you get a pick and place file" question.
Asked the orcad help and it says go to "create component report" and you
get
a file like that:


REF DES VALUE PACKAGE
FOOTPRINT X LOC Y LOC ROTATION
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
C1 1N C_ELECT
CYL/D.175/LS.100/.031 -63.50 mm 29.21 mm 90
C2 15P C
CYL/D.175/LS.100/.031 -33.02 mm 38.10 mm 180
C3 15P C
CYL/D.175/LS.100/.031 -33.02 mm 43.18 mm 180
D1 1N4617 1N4617
AX/.400X.100/.031 -36.83 mm 22.86 mm 90

So that seems not the problem.
You can change a part origin in the library.

Still - preparing the file, and especially preparing the components in a
"machine friendly" way
will most likely take you longer than just putting them where you want
them.
You would need to tell the machine where which part is located, and then
add a "fetch part" line
before each "place part" line.
But converting the above file to the "dop part" seems not the hardest
thing to do.

ST