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createPGPin replacement?

jgentry

I've been using the createPGPin command to model our boundary-edge via-array via-enclosure metal as PG pins.  This works great in 8.* but is REALLY slow in 7.1.  Because of the way our licensing system is setup, it is prefered that we use 7.1 as we have many more licenses there.  Any alternatives to createPGPin?

  • I checked with R&D and unfortunately we don't have a way besides createPGPin and defIn to create PG pins.  And as you're aware defIn is non-incremental for PG pins so you need to capture all of the PG pins in a def to use that as a workaround.

    createPGPin was a big breakthrough because the only way we used to be able to create them was to defIn a floorplan that had them already or create them as part of the PG striping process.  Too bad it was slow in 7.1- hope you can find a solution you can use between 8.1 and/or defIn.  Let me know if you have any other questions on this.

    Thanks for your participation in the forums- we appreciate it.

    -Bob

  •  I kind of expected that.  Rarely does someone create two commands that do the exact same thing although some times there is a user-friendly command (i.e. without 'db' on the front) and also a 'db' version.  Oh well, I have code around that duplicates the existing pins in DEF form so this shouldn't be an issue.

    Thanks for checking,
    JG

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