Adding a new menu item to Allegro PCB Editor

You can certainly add custom menus to Concept.  SKILL vs Allegro SKILL is quite a different animal.  What exactly are you wanting to accomplish?

Chad

Hi,

i need a QuickPick Browser Interface with a listed power cells.

I have this infomation  from Design Entry User Guide :

Before using the QuickPick toolbar in Allegro Design Entry HDL, ensure that you specify standard library cells to appear
under appropriate component categories such as Power, Ground, Ports, Taps, and Page Borders.This information, by
default, is stored in the qpsetup.qps file at the CSF search location. For example, a location can be:
cdssetup/concept in the site area.
To set up the QuickPick Browser:
1. Open an instance of the command window.
2. Type qpsetup and press ENTER.

Qpsetup does't work by me!

Thanks for help

Jürgen

The Quick Pick toolbar is set up using <Cadence Install>\tools\fet\bin\QPSeEditor.exe (browse to it and run).  It is pretty self explanitory what it is looking for.  Make sure the path to the setup file is pointing to either your user cdssetup\concept folder in your HOME variable, or your site cdssetup\concept folder in your CDS_SITE variable.  When you save it, it will write out a .qps file which the Quickpick menu uses for the appropriate symbols from your library.

Hope this helps.

Chad

Thank you Chad,

now works all fine :-)

Best Regards

Jürgen

 Is there a way to handle more than one "popup" in the dynamic menu?  I have this text in the SKILL file:

; Create Symbol Editor Menu Entries;

SymToolsMenu = '(
     (popup "Text")
     ("Change Textsize..."     "replay textsize")
     ("Textsize 1..."         "replay text1" )
     ("Textsize 8..."         "replay text8" )
     (popup "Custom Tools")
     ("Review Tool..."            "skill _rt")
     ("Create Pad Shape..."        "skill ns_spad")
       ("Clear SS 0.15mm..."        "clear pin silk 0.15 0.2")
       ("Clear SS 0.13mm..."        "clear pin silk 0.13 0.2")
     ("--------------------"  "")
     ("&mm<->mils..."          "conv")
)

Using this just creates "Custom Tools" as a submenu of "Text".  I would like a separate menu item.  Any ideas?

Chad