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Export libraries of all DRA files in specific directory

aricbeaver

Hi,

I would like to use SKILL to iterate through every single DRA file in a directory and export the libraries, i.e. padstacks, shapes, etc. The reason is to verify library contents during each library commit.

Would this be the proper way to do this?

1. Get the DRA file paths using getDirFiles(<directory>)

2. Open DRA file

3. Use axlShell(<command>) to open export library form

axlShell("dlib")
axlShell("setwindow form.dlib")
axlShell("FORM dlib destination export")
axlShell("FORM dlib execute")

4. Repeat 2-3 for every other DRA file

Thx,

Aric

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  • 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
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  • 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
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