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Allegro Free Physical PCB viewer 16.5 problem

LeonidSjm

Hi,

I installed Allegro Free Physical viewer ver 16.5, but i can't see the menu bar on the top of the program.

All previous versions are work (16.2, 15.2).

What can be the problem?

I tried to reinstall several times, but it doesn;t help. It work on the other PC so the problem is with the PC but i don't know what.

Thanks

Leonid

 

  • Hello,

    Here are a couple things to try:

    - Open the viewer and type the following on the command line:   reset dockwindows
              This will reset the toolbars and windows to Cadence default.

    - Close the viewer and rename your PCBENV Folder to a different name and reopen the viewer.  The PCBENV Folder is located in your Home directory (%HOME%)
              Sometimes version specific configuration is stored in the PCBENV Folder which may cause issues.

    Hope this helps,
    Mike Catrambone
    Plexus Engineering Solutions

  •  Am having the same problem, and neither solution works.  It happens with both 16.3 and 16.5 (but not 16.2) -- any other thoughts?

  •  From Windows Start menu find the allegr free viewer ote,. Instead of picking it do a RMB and pick Properties.

    Copy the Target: location value.

    From the Windows Run... menu item paste the the copied item and then add: -safe outside the ending double quotes.

    If this allows you to see the menu then something is wrong in your env.

  • Thanks but still no menu....

     

    Seeing this in the command area:

     

    Starting new design...
    E- (SPMHGF-8): No command ID mapping files (allegro ) found in MENUPATH.
    Command > 

  • If the free viewer command area type: set

    With  the resulting window look for the lines with:

       menuload - which should a value of allegro_free_viewer

       menupath - in an "out of the box" environment it should have 3 entries:

                        . <cdsroot>/local/pcb/menus  <cdsroot>/share/pcb/text/cuimenus

    In a Windows file explorer navigate to the last entry shown in menupath. If you don't see the following file names then you have a problem with with installation hierarchy you have OS level environment variables that is toasting your viewer. Files are:

          allegro_free_viewer.men

          allegro.r2c

     

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