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Hello First post on this forum :) So far i was learning from your experience searching everything in this forum wiithout asking a single question. I want to thank all who share information on this forum, especially eDave, Ole, Oldmoudy and vramanan. You are my gurus. You probably dont know it but you helped me a lot =D Ok back to the point. I am facing dificulty. Basicly i am stuck with nc drill. What I have to do: I need to generate NC Drill (Exactly i need .drl file) Manualy there is no problem to make this file. I go to Manufacture >> NC >> NC Drill and click Drill Question is how to do it with a script. I tried with nctape_full function but no luck. Have anyone used this function before, and can show an example ? Can anyone give me an idea how to use this function and execute this Drill command. There must be a way. If it can be done manualy there has to be a way to automate it. Help please I read in this presentation www.cadence.com/.../5.4_presentationIndia.pdf that there is a way to execute multiiple commands ("Single stroke with multiple commands" section) for example alias
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  • djhutchi

    There are a couple of different ways of doing this; you could use axlRunBatchDBProgram() to run the nctape external command:

         axlRunBatchDBProgram("nctape" "nctape -$" ?logfile "ncdrill.log")

    or use a block of axlShell commands to emulate the interactive menu picks:

                    axlShell("nctape_full ")
                    axlShell("setwindow form.nc_drill")
                    axlShell("FORM nc_drill tape_name ncdrill.drl")
                    axlShell("FORM nc_drill scale 1.00")
                    axlShell("FORM nc_drill parameters")
                    axlShell("setwindow form.nc_parameters")
                    (status = car((axlDBGetDesignUnits)))
                    if( equal(status "mils") || equal(status "inches") then
                        axlShell("FORM nc_parameters integer_places 2")
                        (status = EPG_GetAccuracy())
                        if( greaterp(status 4) then
                            if( lessp(status 7) then
                                sprintf(status "FORM nc_parameters decimal_places %d" status)
                                axlShell(status)
                            else
                                axlMsgPut("  reduced output format accuracy from %d to 6" status)
                                axlShell("FORM nc_parameters decimal_places 6")
                            )
                        else
                            axlShell("FORM nc_parameters decimal_places 4")
                        )
                        axlShell("FORM nc_parameters english_units YES")
                    else
                        axlShell("FORM nc_parameters integer_places 3")
                        (status = EPG_GetAccuracy())
                        if( greaterp(status 4) then
                            if( lessp(status 7) then
                                sprintf(status "FORM nc_parameters decimal_places %d" status)
                                axlShell(status)
                            else
                                axlMsgPut("  reduced output format accuracy from %d to 6" status)
                                axlShell("FORM nc_parameters decimal_places 6")
                            )
                        else
                            axlShell("FORM nc_parameters decimal_places 4")
                        )
                        axlShell("FORM nc_parameters metric_units YES")
                    )
                    axlShell("FORM nc_parameters suppress_lead_zeroes YES")
                    axlShell("FORM nc_parameters suppress_trail_zeroes NO")
                    axlShell("FORM nc_parameters suppress_equal NO")
                    axlShell("FORM nc_parameters enhanced_format YES")
                    axlShell("FORM nc_parameters done")
                    axlShell("setwindow form.nc_drill")
                    axlShell("FORM nc_drill repeat_codes NO")
                    axlShell("FORM nc_drill auto_tool_select YES")
                    axlShell("FORM nc_drill execute")
                    axlShell("setwindow form.nc_drill")
                    axlShell("FORM nc_drill close")
                    axlShell("setwindow pcb")

     

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  • djhutchi

    There are a couple of different ways of doing this; you could use axlRunBatchDBProgram() to run the nctape external command:

         axlRunBatchDBProgram("nctape" "nctape -$" ?logfile "ncdrill.log")

    or use a block of axlShell commands to emulate the interactive menu picks:

                    axlShell("nctape_full ")
                    axlShell("setwindow form.nc_drill")
                    axlShell("FORM nc_drill tape_name ncdrill.drl")
                    axlShell("FORM nc_drill scale 1.00")
                    axlShell("FORM nc_drill parameters")
                    axlShell("setwindow form.nc_parameters")
                    (status = car((axlDBGetDesignUnits)))
                    if( equal(status "mils") || equal(status "inches") then
                        axlShell("FORM nc_parameters integer_places 2")
                        (status = EPG_GetAccuracy())
                        if( greaterp(status 4) then
                            if( lessp(status 7) then
                                sprintf(status "FORM nc_parameters decimal_places %d" status)
                                axlShell(status)
                            else
                                axlMsgPut("  reduced output format accuracy from %d to 6" status)
                                axlShell("FORM nc_parameters decimal_places 6")
                            )
                        else
                            axlShell("FORM nc_parameters decimal_places 4")
                        )
                        axlShell("FORM nc_parameters english_units YES")
                    else
                        axlShell("FORM nc_parameters integer_places 3")
                        (status = EPG_GetAccuracy())
                        if( greaterp(status 4) then
                            if( lessp(status 7) then
                                sprintf(status "FORM nc_parameters decimal_places %d" status)
                                axlShell(status)
                            else
                                axlMsgPut("  reduced output format accuracy from %d to 6" status)
                                axlShell("FORM nc_parameters decimal_places 6")
                            )
                        else
                            axlShell("FORM nc_parameters decimal_places 4")
                        )
                        axlShell("FORM nc_parameters metric_units YES")
                    )
                    axlShell("FORM nc_parameters suppress_lead_zeroes YES")
                    axlShell("FORM nc_parameters suppress_trail_zeroes NO")
                    axlShell("FORM nc_parameters suppress_equal NO")
                    axlShell("FORM nc_parameters enhanced_format YES")
                    axlShell("FORM nc_parameters done")
                    axlShell("setwindow form.nc_drill")
                    axlShell("FORM nc_drill repeat_codes NO")
                    axlShell("FORM nc_drill auto_tool_select YES")
                    axlShell("FORM nc_drill execute")
                    axlShell("setwindow form.nc_drill")
                    axlShell("FORM nc_drill close")
                    axlShell("setwindow pcb")

     

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