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Automatically export .PXML file from padstack editor

leetzeyin59
leetzeyin59 11 months ago

I need to export Drill tool size from Padstack Editor into a text file

The padstack definition report generated by "report -v pad" does not have drill tool size in it but .PXML contains it.

Is there any script to  generate .PXML file from padstack editor?

Thank you very much!

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  • DavidJHutchins
    0 DavidJHutchins 11 months ago

    I just recorded a script in padstack_editor to export the .pxml file, however it does not run correctly...

    From the documentation:

    Enter the following command in the system command window:

    padstack_editor –xo *.pad

    The command process multiple .pad files and creates a single .pxml file as an output. The errors and warnings occurred during the export process for each .pad file are saved in a single log file, which is created with the first input .pad file name.

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  • DavidJHutchins
    0 DavidJHutchins 10 months ago in reply to DavidJHutchins

    I reported the issue that padstack_editor has no documentation regarding it's command-line options ( it has no file in %cdsroot%\share\pcb\batchelp )

    Below is the information from R&D:

        [-s file] - run script file
        [-o file], [-j file] - enable journaling
        [-p project] - set startup project
        [-t padstack type] - for new padstack, where types are as follows:
            t - Thru Pin        
                    s - SMD Pin        
                    v - Via        
                    b - BBVia        
                    m - Microvia        
                    B - Bond Finger        
                    s - SlotM - Mechanical Hole        
                    T - Tooling Hole        
                    h - Mounting Hole        
                    f - Fiducial
             [- file fileName] - set padstack name
             [- scriptrec ] - set output script name
             [- x xmlFileName] - XML file to create .pad from (nongraphical)
             [- xg xmlFileName] - set XML filename to read .pad from 
             [- xo padFileName] - set pad filename to create XML file from (nongraphical)
             [- g view] - generate .svg file of specified padstack view, where view is:
                    t - Top view 
                    s - Side view
                    f - Front view
                    a - All (top, side, front)    

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