changing line width of specific width

Hi Mstrghettorigg,

I found cwidth.il but itsnt working.

Regards

Tanveer

I am a little late to this discussion but I wanted to share my thoughts on the different ways that I have used to change a specific line width globally.

• Run Gloss (Route > Gloss > Parameters...) on the design using the Line Fattening functionality.  Once you push into the Line Fattening parameters form you will find it preconfigured with all the line widths on all the layers.  Find the line width/layer you want to change and fill in the line width steps or targets.  Select the check box next to Line Fattening on the main Gloss form then click OK to execute.  It will only increase line widths that do not create DRC errors and will only make the line widths larger and not smaller.
• Generate a Sub-Drawing (Clipboard) of the traces in question and change the line width inside the Clipboard file in a text editor.  Using your example of changing all the 12 mils lines to 15 mils, you would open the Clipboard file in a text editor and globally substitute “_clpMKSConvert 12.000000” with “_clpMKSConvert 15.000000”.   Delete the traces that were previously clipped out and import the updated Clipboard file into the layout.  Here are the steps:
  • Only display the layer which has the traces that you would like to change
  • Generate a Clipboard file (File > Export > Sub-Drawing) of the entire layer by windowing everything and select 0,0 as your sub-drawing origin.
  • Update the Clipboard file and globally substitute "_clpMKSConvert <old width>" with "_clpMKSConvert <new width>"
  • Delete all traces on the design that are contained inside of the updated Clipboard file.
  • Import the updated Clipboard file (File > Import > Sub-Drawing) and indicate load point as 0,0.
  • Note: This changes all the line widths whether there are DRCs generated or not so some cleanup may be required.

Hope this helps,
Mike Catrambone

Hi Mike,

it's working. thank u very much for your kind guidance.

Best Regards

Tanveer

 u can do it even faster if u could get the script file (cwidth.il(change width)) load this script file in ro skill and execute the "CWIDTH" command in allegro cammand window....