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Where is that property ?

Romme

Hello dear friends.

  Im having a problem with someproperties in footprints created by some colleagues loooong time ago.

  In the footprint there was created a property called Revision as string containing the date of creation. Now we have done a mayor cleanup and entered footrpints in a database with Revision as integer fourthrunning numbered. As string and integer is much different :-), we cannot load netlist into boards with old symbols.

  To solve the problem we need to do a skill that runs through the footprint library and "testing" all footprints for a property called Revision, and copy these files to a sub folder.

  Copying files and walking through the directory is not a problem, the problem is to find a property that i do not know where is attached.

  any clues anyone ?

Sincerely
  Klavs Rommedahl.

  • Hi Klavs

    I would say that if you open a .dra file and run x=axlDBGetDesign() then x->prop->?? should show you revision if it exists.

    If not, please send me a sample .dra file and I'll see what I can do.

    Best regards

    Ole

  •  Klavs,

    If the problem is a type mismatch of the property between the old and new symbols, you should be able to retain the type as "string" in the new ones. You will see a integer represented as characters. Unless you are doing math, this should be OK.

    You can use extracta instead of skill.  The control file looks like:

    BOARD

    REVISION (or whatever your property name is)
    END

     

     

  • Many thanks to both. I'm embarrassed as i actually got this working for some time ago, had a winter holliday and forgot everything :-).

     

    Maybe not the most beautyful or perfect solution, but it works...

     

        axlVisibleDesign(t)
        axlUIWRedraw(nil)

        prp = axlDBGetPropDictEntry("Revision")
        if( (prp != nil)
          if( (prp->dataType == "STRING")
            fprintf(oufi "%d \t %s \n", ++j, f_full)
          )
        )

      J is a counter to see how many with this property.

     

    Sincerely

      Klavs Rommedahl.

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