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Looping boardfiles and do reports ?

Romme

Hello friends.

   What is the easiest way to loop through boardfiles and do a report from "hte standard" list save it under unik name and continue the loop.

 

  In long. We have several customers for witch we did their job in Supermax back in time and now in Allegro. Looping through those customers arent any problem, to find out witch was in Allegro is no problem. To load the boardfile is no problem, but how to "run"the Symbol-Library-Path for each board and save the html file as "designname".htm ?, when done this board is "killed" and loop continues.

 

How to do in a smart manner ?

 

Sincerely

  Klavs Rommedahl

  • You just need to run the "extracta" command:

    extracta [<args>] [<drawing>] [<cmd_file>] [<outfile>]

    The "cmd_file" is the file that formats the report, you can generate one of these within PCB Editor and verify that you get the required data, Tools>Reports, "New/Edit..."

    See the Cadence Help for the "extracta" details - search help, or ecoms.pdf in the doc\ecoms directory of the product installation.

  • Thanks.

     

    I found when looking at extracta, some information on report.exe, that works like i was hunting :-). But i find it a bit strange that i need to do a directory search for something that should be explained in help an docs and not hidden to well :-).

     

    Sincerely

      Klavs.

  • The Cadence Help would have got you to the necessary information, OK, you would need to look for "extract", "extracta" or "report" but searching Help would have worked, that is how I found the "extracta" reference. The Help actually searches the "doc" directories, I merely provided the directory details as an alternative to the help search since some users prefer to open the PDFs directly rather than view the help through the Help, HTML, view.

  • I have no problems in finding info on extracta and reports in help but on how to use it in skill, and it was that lack of information i was saying s<beep>s :-).

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