Export libraries of all DRA files in specific directory

Hey Dave,

Thanks for the reply. Where is the reference manual for the available skill functions? I only have PCB Editor installed not the custom IC stuff. I keep reading about this "skill finder" application but it only relates to custom IC software I think.

Yes! Some example code would be great. I found this since you mentioned the axlWritePackageFile function, looking into this now.
community.cadence.com/.../37080

Also, curious why you say "if you really want to do this". In my experience it is difficult to manage a collaborative version control repository of Cadence library components. Exporting the contents (padstack/shapes/etc) from the DRA seems like the best way to approach implementing a "change control committee" process.

Thx,
Aric

Hi Arik, Generally to verify a library I would run a script to place symbols and then watch for errors. That said, I don't know what problems you are looking for.
the two Skill manuals that I use most are the SKill Language reference (\doc\sklangref) and Skill language user (\doc\sklanguser). I also refer to \share\pcb\examples\skill\DOC\FUNCS for the syntax of axl functions.
Here's a function that should help. I haven't verified that it work so it might need a few tweaks:

defun( DE_draExportLibraries (@optional (outputFolder "./libExport"))
let((psms, psmName, symdef, badWrites, badSymdefs, p, result)
unless(isDir(outputFolder), createDir(outputFolder))
if(isDir(outputFolder) then
foreach(path, axlGetVariableList("psmpath")
when(isDir(path), psms = lconc(psms, setof(f, getDirFiles(path), cadddr(axlDMFileParts(f)) == "psm" || cadddr(axlDMFileParts(f)) == "bsm")))
)
psms = unique(car(psms))
foreach(psm, psms
psmName = cadr(axlDMFileParts(psm))
symdef = car(errset(axlLoadSymbol(if(lowerCase(cadddr(axlDMFileParts(psm))) == "psm" then "PACKAGE" else "MECHANICAL"), psmName)))
if(symdef then
unless(axlWritePackageFile(symdef, outputFolder)
badWrites = cons(psmName, badWrites)
)
else
badSymdefs = cons(psmName, badSymdefs)
)
)

p = axlDMOpenFile("MISC", "ExportLibrariesReport.txt", "w")
fprintf(p, "Bad symbol definitions:\n")
foreach(name, badSymdefs, fprintf(p, "\t%s\n", name))
fprintf(p, "\nBad symbol exports:\n")
foreach(name, badWrites, fprintf(p, "\t%s\n", name))
axlDMClose(p)

sprintf(result, "%d bad symbol definitions, %d bad symbol definitions", length(badWrites), length(badSymdefs))
else
axlUIPrompt(sprintf(nil, "Error: Could not create output folder (%s)", outputFolder), 'error)
)
result
))

Hey Dave,

Awesome! Thanks for the free code :) I've loaded and ran that SKILL file no problem.

Ran from a DRA: It creates an empty output directory and says "0 bad symbol definitions, 5330 bad symbol definitions".
Ran from a BRD: It exports quite a few DRAs then crashes Allegro or is doing a long unresponsive operation

Any advice? Sorry I'm not much help debugging the SKILL code. This is my first project where I am writing SKILL.

Thx,
Aric

Hi Aric. It need to run from a board design. It may crash Allegro if the design extents are too small. Try making them huge. Otherwise, you may be finding dra problems causing Allegro to crash. The only suggestion I have for that is to print the name of each dra just before it processes so you know which symbol causes the crash.