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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

 

  • I think I know what's going on, though I don't know how to fix it.  I also use some software from PTC that installs the EXTRACTA piece of Cadence to allow their Intercomm program to load Cadence files.  It's creating a directory structure and taking over the various variables that are being used in the viewer (and are potentially the same problems I'm having with the more global Allegro suite).

     

    So almost everything pulled up by set in the command area reflects that structure, and not where the Free_Viewer install actually is, so it's indeed not finding things correctly.

    I'm not sure where it's pulling  the path from -- a Registry Entry as there aren't any environmental variables in Windows that have this path set that way.

     I'm guessing that PTC changed something about their approach (or Cadence did) after 16.2, as they played together well up until that point.  Even though the PTC code was installed first, a fresh Free Viewer install still is looking within that path structure for the menu.

     

    | Update:  Copying the CUIMENU's directory to the PTC installation location fixes the Viewer Menu's problem...

  • 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

     

  • 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 > 

  •  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.

  •  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?

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