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Clear silkscreen from pins in Allegro Package

chads108
chads108 over 13 years ago

 Does anyone have some SKILL code that will clear silkscreen lines back x distance from pins, either as a group or individually?  I want to use this during footprint building.  Currently I have to use delete and cut to remove pieces of lines that run through pads.

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  • eDave
    0 eDave over 13 years ago
    Add the path to the context file in the loadContext command: eg: loadContext("C:/MySkill/EDAVE_clearPinSilk/EDAVE_clearPinSilk.cxt") This context will only work in 16.5
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  • soori3
    0 soori3 over 13 years ago

    hello dave,

     

    thanks for your reply

    i enterd in command as you mentioned above but i got an error as shown below please help

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  • chads108
    0 chads108 over 13 years ago

    Suresh,

    Hopefully this will help.  Here is a copy of my entire allegro.ilinit file.  This SKILLl routine works for me, so I know that this is correct.  My allegro.ilinit file is in the same folder as my SKILL files.  I have this allegro.ilinit file set up to load all the SKILL files I currently have in the directory.  Notice especially the last two lines which load the SKILL routine in question.

    unless(boundp('LoadSkillFilesDebug) 
            LoadSkillFilesDebug = axlGetVariable("LoadSkillFilesDebug"))
     
    when(LoadSkillFilesDebug printf("\n"))
    (foreach file (rexMatchList "\\.il$" (getDirFiles "."))
          when(LoadSkillFilesDebug printf("Loading Skill file: %s\n" file))
          (load strcat("./" file))
    )

    when(LoadSkillFilesDebug printf("\n"))


    (loadContext "EDAVE_clearPinSilk.cxt")

    (axlCmdRegister "clear pin silk" 'EDAVE_clearPinSilk ?cmdType "interactive")

     

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  • soori3
    0 soori3 over 13 years ago

    Hello Chads,

    Its works great thank u so much for your help ....:)

    And also Dave thanks for your context file...:) it is simply super

    Thanks,

    Suresh Annam

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  • eDave
    0 eDave over 13 years ago

    You must load the Skill lines one at a time.

    Many new users must fall into this trap.You might like to raise a service request with Cadence to try to get this changed. 

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