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Utility to output a single symbol from a design

joma

jm_write_1_symbol_public.zip

Hi, I recently discovered the skill command "axlWritePackageFile( car(axlSelectByName("SYMTYPE" symbol-name))->definition )" which writes a single footprint
from a pcb. The good thing about it is it writes the symbol .dra and.psm files with all associated padstack files. I find this very handy from time to time. The bad thing
is it is a pain to be typing skill commands like this so I have created a user interface form to make things easier. As I have benefited from lots of utilities found in this
forum I thought I would contribute something of my own (however simple).

To load the code type "skill load("jm_write_1_symbol_public.il"). The file shoud be in your skill path.
To run the code type "write one symbol" on the command line.

All feedback welcome.

Load the Skill code using"skill load("RotateSilkAssyRD.il)" - See more at: community.cadence.com/.../17911
Load the Skill code using"skill load("RotateSilkAssyRD.il)" - See more at: community.cadence.com/.../17911
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  • Hi Dave,

    Thanks for the feedback and I'm glad you like it.

    In fact the style comes from my inexperience and the the fact that I sometimes have had problems passing multiple returning values from functions to a calling function. I figure I can use one let() command to cover a group of functions and play happily with all of the variables without leaking globals. Probably not good practice but it seems to work. This gives just one warning in sklint but no errors so I was happy to stick with it. I think that as I get to grips with skill I will probably change to a more conventional style.

    The putd statements are just something I copied from another program from the forum assuming that they were useful. They probably are useless so if I create a version 1.1 I will delete them.

    Creating a form from a string is a better method. Do you know where I can read about this?

    Cheers,
    Jim
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  • Hi Dave,

    Thanks for the feedback and I'm glad you like it.

    In fact the style comes from my inexperience and the the fact that I sometimes have had problems passing multiple returning values from functions to a calling function. I figure I can use one let() command to cover a group of functions and play happily with all of the variables without leaking globals. Probably not good practice but it seems to work. This gives just one warning in sklint but no errors so I was happy to stick with it. I think that as I get to grips with skill I will probably change to a more conventional style.

    The putd statements are just something I copied from another program from the forum assuming that they were useful. They probably are useless so if I create a version 1.1 I will delete them.

    Creating a form from a string is a better method. Do you know where I can read about this?

    Cheers,
    Jim
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