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

ScottCad

When routing a design more often than not I change the grid when routing.

I created a hotkey to do this and indeed the grid does change but when the hotkey executes I loose the cline segment I had picked.

here is the macro

funckey 1 "define grid;etchedit;setwindow form.grid;FORM grid non_etch non_etch_x_grids 100;FORM grid non_etch non_etch_y_grids 100;FORM grid all_etch all_etch_x_grids 100;FORM grid all_etch all_etch_y_grids 100;FORM grid done"

If I am routing in a trace I can go up to the tool bar and change the grid spacing for all the etch and click ok in that dialog. The grid spacing changes and I dont loose my picked trace so I can keep on routing with the new grid settings.

Does anyone know how to create a macro to do this. It would be a time saver...I just want to be able to change the grid in an easy way while routing at the same time ... lol :) without having to select a menu to do it.

Thanks Scott.

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  • ScottCad

    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 

      

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  • ScottCad

    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 

      

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