adding customized menus in Allegro PCB Design CIS L-163

 The menu control files are text files that reside in <CDS>\share\pcb\text\cuimenus

There are several license levels of Allegro so be sure to pick the correct one.  You can edit the file in the directory or move it.  But I forget where Cadence searches for menus so I edit my "master" file.

Someone on here had a bunch of tricks for editing menus...try some searching.

 Hi MAAC,

FORM files are used for SKILL forms, not menus. From the rest of your post, I'll assume you want to edit the Allegro menubar.

The menu files can also be stored at the site level in the $menupath location, if you want to have a shared menu customization for all users at your site.

Since you posted this in the SKILL forum, I'll guess you might be interested in the axlUIMenu* functions. I found them to be unsatisfactory for my uses, but they do work somewhat, in some situations.

Editing menus manually is a possibility, but there's a lot of cut & paste, possible human error, more work required for each new Allegro release, etc.

For now, I've settled on writing a SKILL program to read in and edit my allegro.men file. I run a diff file comparison of the "base" menu file when a new version of Allegro is released to see what's changed, then edit my code if required, and finally run the menu file through my program. It's quick, easily, fairly portable, and doesn't have the disadvantages of the axlUIMenu* functions.