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How to change default spacing between symbol's pins that auto-created from schematic

SpiceMonkey

Symbols can be automaticaly creaded form schematics, how could I change the default pin sapcing ？

I tried to search environment varibles but failed, I found such as "symbolPinIncrCount" which is not for this...Could I change this default setting? thank you!

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  • Take note of which template you normally use for symbol generation (I tend to prefer using the "analog" template) as it adds cdsParam(), cdsTerm() labels etc and is good for annotation), and then copy that to a user directory. The default templates are all in: $CDSHOME/tools/dfII/samples/symbolGen - so for example, I copied artist.tsg to local.tsg in my working directory.

    Then at the end of this file you can change:

            symbolParam(
            origin = topLeftPin
            wireSpacing = 0.250000
            wireLength = 0.250000
            labelHeight = 0.062500
            vSideLength = 0.000000
            hSideLength = 0.000000
        )

    Note that the highlighted line is double the default. In my .cdsinit I then added:

    tsgTemplateMasters = list(
      list("digital" (prependInstallPath "samples/symbolGen/default.tsg"))
      list("analog" (prependInstallPath "samples/symbolGen/artist.tsg"))
      list("artist" (prependInstallPath "samples/symbolGen/artist.tsg"))
      list("PCB" (prependInstallPath "samples/symbolGen/package.tsg"))
      list("metric" (prependInstallPath "samples/symbolGen/metric.tsg"))
      list("local" simplifyFilename("./local.tsg"))
    )

    I could then set the default template via:

    envSetVal("schematic" "tsgTemplateType" 'string "local")

    or I can change it on the fly with the Load/Save on the Edit Options form when doing Create CellView from CellView.

    This will do what you want.

    Andrew

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  • Take note of which template you normally use for symbol generation (I tend to prefer using the "analog" template) as it adds cdsParam(), cdsTerm() labels etc and is good for annotation), and then copy that to a user directory. The default templates are all in: $CDSHOME/tools/dfII/samples/symbolGen - so for example, I copied artist.tsg to local.tsg in my working directory.

    Then at the end of this file you can change:

            symbolParam(
            origin = topLeftPin
            wireSpacing = 0.250000
            wireLength = 0.250000
            labelHeight = 0.062500
            vSideLength = 0.000000
            hSideLength = 0.000000
        )

    Note that the highlighted line is double the default. In my .cdsinit I then added:

    tsgTemplateMasters = list(
      list("digital" (prependInstallPath "samples/symbolGen/default.tsg"))
      list("analog" (prependInstallPath "samples/symbolGen/artist.tsg"))
      list("artist" (prependInstallPath "samples/symbolGen/artist.tsg"))
      list("PCB" (prependInstallPath "samples/symbolGen/package.tsg"))
      list("metric" (prependInstallPath "samples/symbolGen/metric.tsg"))
      list("local" simplifyFilename("./local.tsg"))
    )

    I could then set the default template via:

    envSetVal("schematic" "tsgTemplateType" 'string "local")

    or I can change it on the fly with the Load/Save on the Edit Options form when doing Create CellView from CellView.

    This will do what you want.

    Andrew

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