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Copying symbols for creating padstacks.

mikebystedt

I'm trying to copy padstack information so that I can create a slightly modified version. 

As an example:
When I grab the data structure for the original pad type, it's a string ("ANTIPAD", "THERMAL", etc...) instead of a symbol.
So I can't easily pass it along.

I had to put it into a case statement to assign the type that I want.  
Then I tried to use stringToSymbol and use that so I didn't need a case statement at all.

Any suggestions on why this doesn't seem to work?
ps = axlLoadPadstack(padStackName)
padId = car(ps->pads)

padId->type returns "THERMAL" (a string and not a symbol).

newPad->type = stringToSymbol(padId->type)
*This is no good.*

 /***  This seems to work though.  **/

case(padId->type

("ANTIPAD" type = 'ANTIPAD)

("THERMAL" type = 'THERMAL)

("REGULAR" type = 'REGULAR)

(t type = nil)

);End type case.

newPad->type = type
 

I'm obviously doing something incorrectly here.  Any help is greatly appreciated!

-Mike 

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  • makeSymbol converts a string to a symbol

    But I believe all of the axlDBCreatePadstack options that specify a symbol will also take a string, so I would try removing that code and see if passing a string for pad layer type and figureName will work. The only restriction with a string is that it must be upper case.

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  • makeSymbol converts a string to a symbol

    But I believe all of the axlDBCreatePadstack options that specify a symbol will also take a string, so I would try removing that code and see if passing a string for pad layer type and figureName will work. The only restriction with a string is that it must be upper case.

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