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How to start a Skill file from Allegro command line

Dipak Desai

Hi

Can someone help me learn how to start a skill file i dnloaded from this forum, form the allegro command line. Please give me step by step instructions. So i have the RotateSilkAssyRD.il file I have put it in this location on my computer

C:\Allegro_Skill_setup\Skill\RotateSilkAssyRD.il

and this is my allegro.ilinit file in C:\Cadence\SPB_16.5\share\pcb\etc\skill

 ;FPM_BEGIN

load("c:/FPM/util/fform.il" "")

load("c:/FPM/util/gridsa.il" "")

load("c:/FPM/util/qview.il" "")

load("c:/FPM/util/cot.il" "")

load("c:/FPM/util/boundaryview.il" "gds")

load("c:/FPM/util/scalpel.il" "")

load("c:/FPM/util/conv.il" "")

load("c:/FPM/util/align_sym.il" "")

load("c:/FPM/util/hlvia.il" "")

load("C:\Allegro_Skill_setup\Skill\RotateSilkAssyRD.il")

;FPM_END

and I entered RotateSilkAssyRD in the command line and got this error

 Skill > RotateSilkAssyRD
E- *Error* toplevel: undefined variable - RotateSilkAssyRD
nil
Skill >

Thanks in advance for any help.

 Dipak

  • redwire

     Don't the instructions give you a different command?

    From the file:

    ;#  Usage:  rotate_silkassy (from within Allegro)                          #

    Try typing that command at the command line instead

  • Dipak Desai

    Yes tried that too see below result 

    Command > rotate_silkassy
    E- Command not found: rotate_silkassy
    Command >

    Thanks

  • Boma
    You may want to try changing the "\" to "/" in the path statement if on Windows.  Have seen problems with this in the past.
  • Dipak Desai

    So I have tried both / and \ in the line please see error below. 

    E-                                                       ^
    E- PARSER WARNING at line 3 column 55 of file allegro.ilinit
    W- *WARNING* (Parser): character found after backslash is not meaningful - c:\Allegro_Skill_setup\Skill\RotateSilkAssyRD.il
    E-
    E- load("c:\Allegro_Skill_setup\Skill\RotateSilkAssyRD.il"
    E-                                                       ^
    E- PARSER WARNING at line 3 column 55 of file allegro.ilinit
    W- *WARNING* (Parser): character found after backslash is not meaningful - c:Allegro_Skill_setupp\Skill\RotateSilkAssyRD.il
    E-
    E- load("c:\Allegro_Skill_setup\Skill\RotateSilkAssyRD.il"
    E-                                                       ^
    E- PARSER WARNING at line 3 column 55 of file allegro.ilinit
    W- *WARNING* (Parser): character found after backslash is not meaningful - c:Allegro_Skill_setupSkillll\RotateSilkAssyRD.il
    E- *Error* load: can't access file - "c:Allegro_Skill_setupSkillRotateSilkAssyRD.il"
    Starting new design...
    Command >

     

    I found 2 location of the alegro.ilinit file

    C:\Cadence\SPB_16.5\share\pcb\etc\skill

    when i put the load line in here it did not do any thing but when I put the load line in the alegro.ilinit file located in

    C:\SPB_Data\pcbenv

    I got the error

    E-
    E- load("c:\Allegro_Skill_setup\Skill\RotateSilkAssyRD.il"
    E-                                                       ^
    E- PARSER WARNING at line 3 column 55 of file allegro.ilinit
    W- *WARNING* (Parser): character found after backslash is not meaningful - c:\Allegro_Skill_setup\Skill\RotateSilkAssyRD.il
    E-
    E- load("c:\Allegro_Skill_setup\Skill\RotateSilkAssyRD.il"
    E-                                                       ^
    E- PARSER WARNING at line 3 column 55 of file allegro.ilinit
    W- *WARNING* (Parser): character found after backslash is not meaningful - c:Allegro_Skill_setupp\Skill\RotateSilkAssyRD.il
    E-
    E- load("c:\Allegro_Skill_setup\Skill\RotateSilkAssyRD.il"
    E-                                                       ^
    E- PARSER WARNING at line 3 column 55 of file allegro.ilinit
    W- *WARNING* (Parser): character found after backslash is not meaningful - c:Allegro_Skill_setupSkillll\RotateSilkAssyRD.il
    E- *Error* load: can't access file - "c:Allegro_Skill_setupSkillRotateSilkAssyRD.il"
    Starting new design...
    Command >

    again I tried boath / and \.

     

    Any help is much appreciated.

     

    Best regards

    Diapk

  • oldmouldy

    You need forward slashes, the backslashes are being parsed out:

    E- *Error* load: can't access file - "c:Allegro_Skill_setupSkillRotateSilkAssyRD.il"

    This file path contains no slashes to delimit the path. Change the path to contain only forward slashes in the path, provide the same debug info after this change if the file is not being loaded.

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