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Get all .dra files in the library and extract footprint curve

Elias Ghossein
Elias Ghossein over 4 years ago

Hi,

I need to loop over all component .dra file (or .psm) in the Allegro library and for each, extract the footprint curve. Can you provide a simple piece of code that:

1. Extract all .dra in the library

2. For each .dra file, access footprint curve data

I see that for (2),  we can use extracta.exe to extract/ convert .dra to ASCII. What should I put in the input file ?

extracta mysym.dra mycmd.txt out.txt

 

with mycmd.txt containing

FULL_GEOMETRY

CLASS="ETCH"

SUBCLASS="TOP"

OR

SUBCLASS="BOTTOM"

  PIN_NUMBER

  PAD_STACK_NAME

END

What should I put in mycmd.txt to extract the footprint curve location

The end goal is to create those curve in another CAD software.

Thank you in advance

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