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Skill code to Calculating PCB Real-estate usage using placement boundaries and package keep ins

Toolman

Other tools allow a sanity check of placement density vs available board space.  There is an older post "Skill code to evaluate all components area (Accumulative Place bound area)"  (9 years ago) that has a couple of examples that no longer work or expired.

This would be useful to provide feedback to schismatic and project managers regarding the component density on the PCB and how it will affect the routing abilities.  Thermal considerations can be evaluated as well 

Has anyone attempted this or still being done externally in spread sheets?

  • TravelinGuy

    Hello Toolman,

    Curious if you every heard anything through other channels or progressed on this in any way? Have an outstanding project that was considering doing outside of SKILL/Allegro, but would be curious to see if there's some reasonable starting point.

    Thanks

  • joma
    in reply to TravelinGuy

    There is an old script created by Dave Elder that still works in V17.2,  I have not tried it in V17.4 though.

    Jim O'Mahony

    8814.taitComponentBoardRatio_public.zip

  • Toolman
    in reply to dote4

    Thanks for this.  EMA provides an addon at a $$ and apparently there are plans to incorporate to add this tool for this into 17.4  however I do not know the timeline for this.

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