Python libraries to manipulate board file and save the board as png

Hi Harsha,

I'm not familiar of any public Python libraries that do this, but it is possible to extract data from a brd file using python. To do this you will want use the extracta command via a command line, which can be done in Python. All you need to do is specify the input brd file, config file for the data you want to export, and an output file (with some other command line arguments). You can then use python to parse the output file and do what you want with the data. I'm not sure what the use case is for trying to modify a brd file using python. If there are specific things in the design you want to automate, you might want to look at running Skill code within a given design.

Alternatively if you are just looking for a picture of the design you can just use a screen capture tool or within Allegro run File->Capture Canvas Image... and set the output file type to *.png. You might even be able to automate this using Skill, and if not I'm sure you could just use a standard Allegro script. Hope this helps.