Change the grid size while routing in Allegro with a hotkey, Keep routing at the same time

 I use the following:

in PCBENV:

funckey g 'settoggle gridvalue 0.1 0.25 0.5 1 2 5 10; replay gridset $gridvalue;echo grid = $gridvalue'

Create a scriptfile called gridset.scr:

scriptmode +invisible
setwindow pcb
define grid
setwindow form.grid
FORM grid non_etch non_etch_x_grids $gridvalue
FORM grid non_etch non_etch_y_grids $gridvalue
FORM grid all_etch all_etch_x_grids $gridvalue
FORM grid all_etch all_etch_y_grids $gridvalue
FORM grid done

With this I don't loose the cline while routing. (or other things)

The pre defined grid figures ( 0.1 0.25 0.5 1 2 5 10) you can just change to anything that you need. 

Hello thanks for the tip. "It works Awesome"  :) Thats just so cool.....

By way of a give back here are two macros that I find handy perhaps they might be of use. Add to your PCBENV

 First one handles finding reference dez in a easy way

funckey f "prepopup ; pop dyn_option_select 'Selection set@:@Clear all selections' ; set prompt ; prompt 'Find Ref Des' ; refdes $prompt ; zoom selection"

The second one is a variant of the first I use it for finding net names

funckey n "prepopup ; pop dyn_option_select 'Selection set@:@Clear all selections' ; set prompt ; prompt 'Find Net Name' ; net $prompt ; zoom selection"

Thanks again for your help

Scott 

 Hi Scott

Thanks for those things. They can come handy sometime. Usally i work with the capture schematic next to Allegro, so just click the part on the schematic and allegro jumps to the part on the PCB.

Maybe some other things that can be useful:

This sets the line width, even while routing:

funckey l 'settoggle linewidth 0.15 0.2 0.3 0.5 1; form mini acon_line_width $linewidth;echo width=$linewidth '

Quick snapping to objects: 

funckey v "prepopup;pop dyn_option_select 'Snap pick to@:@Via'"

The @Via you can change to what you need. (as like the sub menu in the RMB) e.g. @Pin, @Intersection, @Symbol Origin, etc

I didn't liked to search for the ENV file everytime to add or change somethings. Therefore these 2 lines can be really useful:

funckey CEnd  Shell notepad $localenv/env

funckey CHome 'source -q $localenv/env; echo ENV file reloaded'

So, ctrl-end opens the ENV file in notepad (i assume you are using windows), then you can change it, save and close it. 

With ctrl-home you re-load the ENV file. 

Kind regards,

Bram

Bram those are cool :), The line width change is really nice and the ENV change sure beats a reload of the editor.

Thanks

 Best Regards Scott

Hi Scott

Thanks these are really usefull

can you please tell me why the below is not working, i want to find text on the board 

funckey t "prepopup ; pop dyn_option_select 'Selection set@:@Clear all selections' ; set prompt ; prompt 'Find Text' ; text $prompt ; zoom selection"

or from where we can learn these commands

Regards

Nayyier