Exporting variants.lst through tcl or automation

Try using following steps:

1. Enable Journaling and Display Commands from Extended Preferences > Command Shell.
2. Now, select and right click on the design file in the project manager and open Part Manager.
3. Copy MenuCommand number from the command window and replace it in the below code in place of 14604 >

set lSession $::DboSession_s_pDboSession
DboSession -this $lSession
set lNullObj NULL
set lDesign [$lSession GetActiveDesign]
if { $lDesign != $lNullObj} {
MenuCommand "14604"
Menu "Tools::Export Variant List"
return
}

4. Run the TCL script in the command window and Hit Export it will create variants.lst file.

Hope this helps!

Hello Vishwajeet, 
unfortunately this brings up the UI which requires a user input.

I am looking for a full automation, so without User Input.
is there a possibility to control the UI also through an xml file, like when switching to the variant view (even if controlling the UI is not really a good practice :)

Hello, 

Thank you for the code. Unfortunately it is not exactly what we need.
dumping out the BOM's of the variants etc. is what we do already.

We really look for a way to fully automate the export of the variant.lst file from Capture to Allegro PCB Editor so that the variant information is available in Allegro PCB.
So we would need to have exactly the same syntax understood by allegro than when going through the the export Variant.LST in Part Manager

Thanks

Patrick

Try using the following TCL Code >

set lSession $::DboSession_s_pDboSession
DboSession -this $lSession
set lNullObj NULL
set lDesign [$lSession GetActiveDesign]
if { $lDesign != $lNullObj} {
MenuCommand "14604"
SetAutomationFlag 1
"ExportVariantList" C:/TCL1 C:/Cadence/SPB_23.1/tools/capture/
SetAutomationFlag 0
}

Make sure the path variant.lst should have read/write permissions.
"ExportVariantList" <path to dump variant.lst> <path to variant.cfg file>

Let me know how it goes for you after performing the steps, are you able to generate variants.lst with tcl?

perfect, that works like a charm with the design I tried.

can you elaborate on what SetAutomationFlag does and is used for?

+Patrick

Great that it worked for you to generate variants.lst using TCL.
SetAutomationFlag command is used to suppress the confirmation message or information message box.

Hope this helps!

Does this  work for all kind of boxes?
Is it only for a box showing such a confirmation/information message or can it be used for other boxes,so saying that the 'OK' button is always pressed?

+Patrick

Does this  work for all kind of boxes?
Is it only for a box showing such a confirmation/information message or can it be used for other boxes,so saying that the 'OK' button is always pressed?

+Patrick