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Get info from all footprints in library

EvanShultz

I would like to write a report that gives 3D mapping info for all footprints in the library. I have written a report that works fine for all footprints on a board, so I should be able to simply swap out the list of footprints on the board with a list of footprints in the library. But I'm not sure how to do that.

getDirFiles(axlOSSlash(strcat(axlGetVariable("CDS_SITE") "//footprints"))) gives me a list of all footprints in the library, but I don't know how to access the footprint properties. The board report is as simple as symdef->prop->PKGDEF_STEP_FILE (and the other 3D model properties) for each footprint on the board, but that doesn't work with a pile of PSM files sitting out on a network folder.

Does anyone know how I can access the properties of a footprint on the network? I searched the forum and didn't find anything but I may have just not used the proper search terms. Thanks in advance for any help!

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  • You need to do this with the extracta tool and run it on the DRA (not PSM) files.

    create a extracta command file, eg  c:\extracta.txt

    put these lines in this file:

    BOARD
    PKGDEF_STEP_FILE
    END

    Then start the extracta command line: (perhaps you need to run this from your <cds_root>\tools\bin  directory)

    extracta -q -s -k -r "footprint.dra" "c:\extracta.txt"

    This will return the PKGDEF_STEP_FILE information.

    From SKILL you can do this with a ipcBeginProcess() and read out the return with ipcReadProcess().

  • in reply to B Bruekers

    Thanks!!

    I can get this info easily in the console, but I don't find documentation on ipc*Process() functions in COS or any of the SKILL function reference documents I usually look at. There are some examples of using these functions elsewhere on the forum but that doesn't necessarily tell me what I need to know to use there here. Do you know where I can find info on this series of functions?

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  • in reply to B Bruekers

    Thanks!!

    I can get this info easily in the console, but I don't find documentation on ipc*Process() functions in COS or any of the SKILL function reference documents I usually look at. There are some examples of using these functions elsewhere on the forum but that doesn't necessarily tell me what I need to know to use there here. Do you know where I can find info on this series of functions?

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