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How to start Skill in Orcad PCB editor 16.2

Prasanna

Hi All,

I am using Orcad PCB editor 16.2.  I not getting how to start/load  skill files to PCB editor. I searched in community but things are not clear to me. As per some suggestion I will have to change " allegro.ilinit" file in " pcbenv " folder under installed diretory. But I am not getting allegro.ilinit file and even the "pcbenv" folder.  I found one " env " file under C:\OrCAD\OrCAD_16.2\share\pcb\text\  path. Is there any thing to change with that?

 Pls let me know what are the setting I need to do ? I got one allegro.ilinit file from the forum, but where to paste that file. I have no idea about this.

Pls give me your valuable guidance.

Thanks,

Prasanna Hegde

  • steve

    Have a look at your computer settings for HOME. (On XP RMB My computer - properties - advanced - environment variables. If not set create a user variable called HOME = C:\yourdirectory name. This is where Orcad will create a pcbenv directory. Put your env, skill and allegro.ilinit here. Then try again.

  • C Shiva

     Hi Prasanna,

      The "pcbenv" folder may be located at your C:\OrCAD or C:\OrCAD\OrCAD_16.2 folder. Create a file here and rename it as "allegro.ilinit". Save your skill file name here as "load <filename.il>". Restart your tool and type the new command at Command console window.

    HTH

     Regards,

     Shiva.

  • Prasanna
    Shiva, thanks for reply..

    still  I am confused due to some things.  When I searched in forum I got  allegro.ilinint file :::::::  in this I changed the path for skill files where I saved all in one folder. Then I started the tool and it was showing  like    ".....  .il file redefined " . I tried to type that command but got error command is not exist.

    Then I tried what you told. finally I got pcbenv folder in local documents directory and loaded what you said.   here is few file i tried.    I removed old alegro.ilinit file what i mentioned above, but still its trying to read same path it seems its giving error. How  does it take the path if we mentioned only file name in .ilinit file?

    pls clarify my doubts..

    Thanks,

    Prasanna Hegde
  • steve

    Please follow my instructions from earlier and define a HOME property. This is where the pcbenv folder will live. The only other thing to check is when specifying the skill folder path be sure to use c:/folder/skill rather than c:\folder\skill. (it's a unix format).

  • MAAC

     Hi,

    I am trying to run the skill for past few months using Allegro 16.2 but unable to succeed. The steps i followed is:

    I have created a system variable as ALLEGRO_SITE  with value d:\AllegroSite

    So when i try to invoke the checkWidth in the command prompt of Allegro i get a E-Command not found:checkWidth.I have attached the AllegroSite file. I am able to see the this settings in the variables list of set in the Editor.

    Plz let me know if i am making any mistake r should i make any settings.

    Guide me to run any of the skill

     

    Thnx

    AllegroSite.zip
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