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Ideas/Help Needed for Padstack Edit

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Hi Guys I give up, I tried for a while and now I don’t know what to do This is what I want to do in Skill 1.  Load a Padstack 2.  Edit the pad-definition on only selected layers, either make them null or assign a new value I tried the following methods 

Method 1:

 a.  Get All padstacks b.  Foreach padstack and foreach pad-definition make a copy of pad definition a.  Using make_axlPadStackPadb.  Modify the values if neededc.  Create a New Padstack  Replace the old padstack with new padstack

                Problem:

a.  Not able to create the pad-definition structure, error prone 

Method 2:

a.  Foreach padstack I use axlDBCopyPadstack and trim it by specifying the start/end layerp1=axlLoadPadstack("CIR60D40")p2 = axlDBCopyPadstack(p1, '("CONDUCTOR/RDL_SEC" "CONDUCTOR/TOP_PRM"), t)axlPadstackToDisk(p2->name)

Problem:

a.  This doesn’t seem to work, the resulting padstack still has all the pad definition on the other layersb.  Trimming doesn’t seems to work 

Method 3:

a.  Use Allegro Scripting all the way

Problem:

a.  Error Prone and there is no way to control occasional out of blue pop-ups  I am out of ideas and would appreciate any kind of help on this issue  Is there is any way I can load a padstack and go to a certain padstack definition on a given layer and change its vaule

regards

Vramanan

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  • Hi

    As a kind of follow up on this it seems like the documentation for make_axlPadStackDrill (part of axlDBCreatePadStack) not has been updated.

    If I pull the record for a padstack I get a lot of more options than what is documented.

    Anyone know the most recent argument list for make_axlPadStackDrill and also if it is possible to change the slot symbol in this way? How can we get the complete parameter list for a function?

    The undocumented parameters at least are

    drillFigureHeight
    drillFigureWidth
    drillFigureName
    drillSizeHeight
    drillFigureName
    drillSizeHeight
    drillSizeWidth
    drillDiameter
    drillOffset (suppose this is what was offset, but has the name changed for the function?)

    (prop nil bBox
        ((-1.842 -1.842)
     (1.841 1.841)
        ) readOnly
        t pads
        (pad:200849088 pad:200849064 pad:200849040 pad:200849016 pad:200848992
     pad:200848968 pad:200848944 pad:200848920 pad:200848896 pad:200848872
     pad:200848848 pad:200848824 pad:200848800 pad:200848776 pad:200848752
     pad:200848728 pad:200848704 pad:200848680
        ) objType "padstack"
        startEnd
        ("ETCH/TOP" "ETCH/BOTTOM") parent dbid:189357224 name
        "HOLE110" drillChar nil plating "NON_PLATED"
        holeType "rectangle_slot" drillNonStandard nil multiDrillData
        nil uvia nil type "through"
        keepout nil holeTolerance
        (0.0 0.0) drillFigureHeight
        1.23 drillFigureWidth 2.794 drillFigureName "RECTANGLE"
        drillSizeHeight 1.23 drillSizeWidth 2.794 drillDiameter
        1.23 drillOffset
        (0.0 0.0) isThrough t
        definition nil isPadRef nil
    )

     

    Best regards

    Ole

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  • Hi

    As a kind of follow up on this it seems like the documentation for make_axlPadStackDrill (part of axlDBCreatePadStack) not has been updated.

    If I pull the record for a padstack I get a lot of more options than what is documented.

    Anyone know the most recent argument list for make_axlPadStackDrill and also if it is possible to change the slot symbol in this way? How can we get the complete parameter list for a function?

    The undocumented parameters at least are

    drillFigureHeight
    drillFigureWidth
    drillFigureName
    drillSizeHeight
    drillFigureName
    drillSizeHeight
    drillSizeWidth
    drillDiameter
    drillOffset (suppose this is what was offset, but has the name changed for the function?)

    (prop nil bBox
        ((-1.842 -1.842)
     (1.841 1.841)
        ) readOnly
        t pads
        (pad:200849088 pad:200849064 pad:200849040 pad:200849016 pad:200848992
     pad:200848968 pad:200848944 pad:200848920 pad:200848896 pad:200848872
     pad:200848848 pad:200848824 pad:200848800 pad:200848776 pad:200848752
     pad:200848728 pad:200848704 pad:200848680
        ) objType "padstack"
        startEnd
        ("ETCH/TOP" "ETCH/BOTTOM") parent dbid:189357224 name
        "HOLE110" drillChar nil plating "NON_PLATED"
        holeType "rectangle_slot" drillNonStandard nil multiDrillData
        nil uvia nil type "through"
        keepout nil holeTolerance
        (0.0 0.0) drillFigureHeight
        1.23 drillFigureWidth 2.794 drillFigureName "RECTANGLE"
        drillSizeHeight 1.23 drillSizeWidth 2.794 drillDiameter
        1.23 drillOffset
        (0.0 0.0) isThrough t
        definition nil isPadRef nil
    )

     

    Best regards

    Ole

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