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Adding a new menu item to Allegro PCB Editor

chads108

 I want to add, or really append, a new menu item to the Allgro PCB Editor menu.  What is the easiest way to handle this without having to modify the installed menu?  Maybe someone has an example that I could follow?

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  • Cool, I am glad it worked for you.  Certainly easier to maintain vs. having to remember to update the standard Allegro.men file.

    I checked out your SKILL code.  Wow!   You have a lot of grid settings in the GRIDS menu, pretty cool.  I don't have as many grid scripts so I defined a function key to reply the scripts quickly:

    funckey g1 "replay grid1.scr"
    funckey g2.5 "replay grid2_5.scr"
    funckey g5 "replay grid5.scr"
    funckey g25 "replay grid25.scr"
    funckey g.1 "replay grid100.scr"

    Just type g1 on the Allegro command line to replay the grid1.scr.  I couldn't imagine setting as many function keys for all those different grids that you have but it is still good info any way so I figured I would share the funckey tip as well.

    Have fun!

    Mike

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  • Cool, I am glad it worked for you.  Certainly easier to maintain vs. having to remember to update the standard Allegro.men file.

    I checked out your SKILL code.  Wow!   You have a lot of grid settings in the GRIDS menu, pretty cool.  I don't have as many grid scripts so I defined a function key to reply the scripts quickly:

    funckey g1 "replay grid1.scr"
    funckey g2.5 "replay grid2_5.scr"
    funckey g5 "replay grid5.scr"
    funckey g25 "replay grid25.scr"
    funckey g.1 "replay grid100.scr"

    Just type g1 on the Allegro command line to replay the grid1.scr.  I couldn't imagine setting as many function keys for all those different grids that you have but it is still good info any way so I figured I would share the funckey tip as well.

    Have fun!

    Mike

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