Write "Net Single Pin and No Pin" Allegro report into a spreadsheet

All,  

I found a solution for this.

Firstly, I assumed there would be a view in ‘%CDSROOT%/share/pcb/text/views’ directory associated with all Allegro (built-in/hard-coded) reports. And I could just extract this view into a text file. But this is not true.

So, I recorded a macro (Allegro script) to open this report and save it as a text file. And then embedded the macro in my code as follows:

_singlePinNetFile = outfile("singlePinNet.scr") 

fprintf(_singlePinNetFile "scriptmode +w +i\n")
fprintf(_singlePinNetFile "setwindow pcb\n")
fprintf(_singlePinNetFile "reports \"Net Single Pin and No Pin\"\n")
fprintf(_singlePinNetFile "setwindow text\n")
fprintf(_singlePinNetFile "save\n")
fprintf(_singlePinNetFile "fillin \"Single_Pin_Net.txt\"\n")
fprintf(_singlePinNetFile "setwindow text\n")
fprintf(_singlePinNetFile "close\n")

close(_singlePinNetFile)

;Run the script 
axlShell("replay singlePinNet")

I then wrote some SKILL code to read the text file and write it to a spreadsheet.

Thanks,

Bindu

Hello,

There is one other (simpler) approach I found:

 If you type “report” in Operating system prompt, the list of all the Allegro reports and their code name is displayed as shown in the attached image.

Then using “report –v  <code name of report>  <design name>  <name of output text file>” in this window, you can export the report into a text file.

Example - report -v waived_drc test.brd waived_drc_report.txt

Unfortunately, the report I am looking for (Net Single Pin and No Pin) is not listed here and I had to use the Allegro script.

Thanks,

Bindu

Skill Command axlReportList Lists all the SKILL reports registered to the Allegro PCB Editor report interface. Even if you

do not register any reports, Allegro PCB Editor registers default reports written in SKILL.

On running the skill command

Skill > axlReportList()
(("cmdRptIslands" "Shape Islands" "Shape Island Report")
("cmdRptNetless" "Shape No Net" "Shape Without Net Report")
("cmdRptShapeState" "Shape Dynamic State" "Dynamic Shape State Report")
("cmdSymbolCheck" "Symbol Availability Check" "Symbol Availability Check")
("cmdOnePinNetReport" "Net Single Pin and No Pin" "Single and No Pin Net Report")
)

To run report "Net Single Pin and No Pin"  you need to call skill command cmdOnePinNetReport

Thanks.

I read about axlReportList in the manual before I tried anything else. But the report callback, "cmdOnePinNetReport", can not be used in the 'report' command (I mentioned in my post) to save the report to a text file.

Since my work involves saving the report and not just viewing it, I had to use a different approach.