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Schendly
Schendly over 15 years ago

 I am trying to learn SKILL and I am going through 'allegroskill.pdf' manual and I can't get the axlReplacePadstack on  page 245 to work.  It says: "The padstack can be referenced by name or a dbid and must be present in the Allegro PCB Editor database"

I tried both dbid and padstack name I am still getting nil. I know how to do it with the Allegro Editor command. 

Thanks for any help.

Schendly 

Version Allegro Xl 16.01 

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  • eDave
    eDave over 15 years ago
    Try this function. It works in 16.3: defun( AFn_replacePads () let((pins, padstackNames, n, padstack, psid) axlClearSelSet() axlSetFindFilter(?enabled '("NOALL", "PINS"), ?onButtons '("PINS")) axlSelect(?prompt "Select pins") pins = axlGetSelSet() padstackNames = unique(pins ~>name) when(length(padstackNames) > 1 n = axlUIMultipleChoice("Select the padstack name of the pins to replace", padstackNames, "Select pins to replace") pins = and(n >= 0, setof(p, pins, p ->name == nth(n, padstackNames))) ) axlHighlightObject(pins) and( pins padstack = car(axlUIDataBrowse('PADSTACK '(RETRIEVE_NAME, EXAMINE_DATABASE), "New Padstack Name", t)) psid = axlLoadPadstack(padstack) axlReplacePadstack(pins, psid) ) axlDehighlightObject(pins) axlClearSelSet() axlFinishEnterFun() ))
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  • eDave
    eDave over 15 years ago
    Try this function. It works in 16.3: defun( AFn_replacePads () let((pins, padstackNames, n, padstack, psid) axlClearSelSet() axlSetFindFilter(?enabled '("NOALL", "PINS"), ?onButtons '("PINS")) axlSelect(?prompt "Select pins") pins = axlGetSelSet() padstackNames = unique(pins ~>name) when(length(padstackNames) > 1 n = axlUIMultipleChoice("Select the padstack name of the pins to replace", padstackNames, "Select pins to replace") pins = and(n >= 0, setof(p, pins, p ->name == nth(n, padstackNames))) ) axlHighlightObject(pins) and( pins padstack = car(axlUIDataBrowse('PADSTACK '(RETRIEVE_NAME, EXAMINE_DATABASE), "New Padstack Name", t)) psid = axlLoadPadstack(padstack) axlReplacePadstack(pins, psid) ) axlDehighlightObject(pins) axlClearSelSet() axlFinishEnterFun() ))
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