create symbol with skill

Hi Ole,

Have you tried  "axlDBCreateSymDefSkeleton"? I've use this to create new symbols in a design.

-Craig

Hi Ole,

If I understand your problem correctly you want to create a symbol without leaving your current design session?

I can't think of a non-script way to do that but I get around the problem with a series of tricks to save my current design, open the symbol editor, create my symbol and re-open the original design:

    draName = "myDra"
   
    currentDesign = axlCurrentDesign()
    state = axlSaveEnable()
    tempDesignName = "temp.brd"
    axlSaveDesign(?design tempDesignName, ?mode "nocheck", ?noMru t)
    AFn_OpenDesign(?design strcat(draName, ".dra"), ?mode "wf", ?noMru t, ?noConfirm t, ?forceNew t)
    axlSetSymbolType("shape")
    ;...
   
    AFn_OpenDesign(?design tempDesignName, ?mode "wf", ?noMru t, ?noConfirm t)
    axlSaveDesign(?noMru t)
    axlRenameDesign(currentDesign)
    deleteFile(tempDesignName)
    axlSaveEnable(state)

defun( AFn_OpenDesign (@key design, (mode "w"), noMru, noConfirm, forceNew)
 let((noconfirmStatus, result)
  when(noConfirm, noconfirmStatus = axlGetVariable("NOCONFIRM"), axlSetVariable("NOCONFIRM", t))
  when(forceNew && isFile(design), deleteFile(design))
  result = if(noMru && axlVersion('version) >= 16.0
   then axlOpenDesign(?design design, ?mode mode, ?noMru t)
   else axlOpenDesign(?design design, ?mode mode)
  )
  when(noConfirm, if(noconfirmStatus then axlSetVariable("NOCONFIRM", t) else axlUnsetVariable("NOCONFIRM")))
  result
))

Regards,

Dave

Hi Dave

Thanks for the tip, I'll try it out.

Best regards

Ole

Hi Dave

This seems to work fine, a small correction

you need to run axlSaveDesign before AFn_OpenDesign in the end to save of the symbol

I was wondering if you have a method to write the symbol file also, I can only get it to save the .dra file

Best regards

Ole

Hi Ole,

axlSaveDesign should also create the compile the symbol if you are in the drawing editor.

Regards,

Dave