Cadence PCB Skill Forum

find shape center

Ejlersen — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 10:28:27 GMT

Problem is solved, please disregard this message

Best regards

Ole

getting the active command

Ejlersen — Thu, 16 May 2013 05:49:51 GMT

I'm working on a small skill program that should only be available during "add connect", but I've not figured out a way to get the active command in skill

Using axlGetCmdSupplementalData() will show "add connect" as the command using pre-selection mode, but if the user selects

Route->Connect then it will return nil as the command. This is also in alignment with the description for axlGetCmdSupplementalData()

But does anyone know if there's a way to get the name of the active command?

Best regards

Ole

Find ext_artwork and ext_drill

bulldog — Wed, 15 May 2013 16:49:09 GMT

I'm looking for a way in Skill to extract the setup information for artworks and drill files. Cadence sets the default values of art (ext_artwork) and drl (ext_drill). I've written a program to setup the artwork table in the Allegro file but since we use the Cadence default values and or sister company uses different values I would like to know how to extract the values directly from the database.

Hopefully somebody knows how and can point me in the right direction.

Many thanks in advance!

Segment Length

eDaJun — Tue, 07 May 2013 00:16:19 GMT

Dear All,

Can anyone help me hot to get this given point. Thanks

how to use "insertXMlMenu" in capture

robin chu — Wed, 08 May 2013 08:41:04 GMT

There is a "insertXMLMenu" function in capture's tcl demo as follow:

InsertXMLMenu [list [list "TopLevelMenu"] "" "" [list "popup" "&TopLevelMenu" "0"]]

InsertXMLMenu [list [list "TopLevelMenu" "SubMenu" ] "" "" [list "action" "&SubMenu..." "0" "SubMenuActionLabel" "MenuUpdateLabel"]]

I don't know how to fill in the parameters.

Is there I can find a document that explain these functions?

Updating pad names with SKILL

MikeBR — Wed, 08 May 2013 17:05:53 GMT

Hello all,

I'm a total novice at using skill skill scripting, but have a background in other languages (C++ mostly). At my company, we have a huge database of symbols, padstacks, etc. And would like to standardize all of them. The only reasonable way I can see to accomplish this is to figure out how to write a script that will update every drawing automatically.

The problem I'm trying to figure out is how to take the information in a padstack (the width, height, type, etc.) and rename the padstack using that information. So, for example, a 0.5 x 1.5 rectangular pad becomes 0p5x1p5r.pad

Is this possible? If so, how?

Thanks,

Mike

artwork film control

seyerfred — Tue, 07 May 2013 13:17:46 GMT

Hi,

is there any code to set only all inner layer into supress unconnected pads? and a selection of plot mode for power/gnd plane to set posive o negative?

Thank you

Number of Vias in a place bound region

Wale — Tue, 07 May 2013 22:14:33 GMT

Hi all, i am new to this forum and new to skill..... i was wondering if anyone has a Skill script that could list the number of vias ( xy-cord), the via-padstack, and the package_hieght_min in a palce bound top and place bound bottom of package geometry?

also, if anyone has a skill script that could count the number of vias in a brd file. i would like to take a look and compare with mine. mine is not compiling.

Thanks

Find the angle between two segments

eDaNoy — Tue, 07 May 2013 01:38:47 GMT

I would like to get the angle between two segments, this must be applied to any angled situation.

I have already a function that gets the slope of two segments then the rest is a problem, i cant get the correct result

im using this formula.

angle=(m2-m1)/[1+(m2*m1)]

atan(angle)*180/math.pi

the result must be the added angle of two segments.

sample 1st segment = 90 degree

second segment = 45 degree

result = 135 degree

encrypter skill

seyerfred — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:15:51 GMT

i want to write a skill to encrypt my skill file but my code doenst wok.. please help..

here is my code:

(defun encrypt ()

file = axlDMFileBrowse(nil nil ?optFilters "Skill files(*.il)|*.csf|Dat files(*.dat)|*.dat|)("?title"Select Skill file to Encrypt"))

if(!isDir("~/skill/encrypt") then

createDir("~/skill/encrypt")

)

fileparts = axlDMFileParts(file)

filepartsFileWext = nth(2 fileparts)

fileEncParts = strcat("~/skill/encrypt/" filepartsFileWext)

encrypt(file fileEncParts eLock)

)

axlCmdRegister("encrypt" 'encrypt)