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Maintain "Persistence" of Find after done command is completed while routing.

excellon1

Hi.

When in EtchEdit mode or general edit mode for routing I notice that when routing is finished by selecting "Done" the settings in the find dialog
settings get blown out.

I am trying to maintain the relationship between adding etch with find after the fact. In other words after etch is added to the canvas I want the
find dialog to retain ( Cline Segs, Pins, Nets, Rats T etc ) so that those items are selectable for either info or basic editing after the fact.

Is there any way to accomplish this other than creating a macro for find entities ?.

Basic idea is to have find pre-checked for a given command such as routing etc.

Something like a "IF Done" at the macro level would be helpful too though I do not know if something like that is supported ? , Like execute
the macro, after done is selected as an action then the macro runs the part to check find dialog items.

Thanks Paul. 

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  • Dale Peterson

    Hi,

    This may be what you are looking for. All you have to do is to setup keyboard commands to always toggle on what you want. You can stay and do everything in general edit mode. For your exact problem do the following-

    1. Define a key command to run "add connect". The example assigns the command to key "a" "funckey a  add connect" just add this to your ENV file 

    2. Define a key for "Done" or just hit the F6 key or right click done as well.

    The add connect will turn on the correct selections. "Done" will blank them out like you have mentioned

    If you like to toggle on more stuff. - record and save a macro file to be assigned to a key as well. 

    Cheers

  • excellon1
    in reply to Dale Peterson

    Hi Dale, thanks for the tip. I had macros setup but the main issue I had was with the "Done" When cadence means Done - "Your Done" Slight smile

    I do have a better handle on things now in particular the use of the modes.

    Thanks  Paul. 

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  • excellon1
    in reply to Dale Peterson

    Hi Dale, thanks for the tip. I had macros setup but the main issue I had was with the "Done" When cadence means Done - "Your Done" Slight smile

    I do have a better handle on things now in particular the use of the modes.

    Thanks  Paul. 

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  • Dale Peterson
    in reply to excellon1

    Paul,

    I'm amazed at all the comments for your issue. So, I will make this simple for you. Just assign a key to point to this script as shown here. You can edit it per your needs. So, when you want your selections hit your new key. The script has the DONE command plus you selections. It would make sense to assign the "d" key (D for Done).

    Your key assignment:

    funckey D      replay done_with_selects.scr

    The Script:

    # Allegro script
    # file: C:/Cadence/SPB_17.2/share/local/pcb/scripts/new.scr
    # start time: Wed Jan 24 08:34:19 2018
    # Version: 17.2-2016 S031 (3682489) Windows SPB 64-bit Edition
    version 17.2

    setwindow pcb
    trapsize 31
    generaledit
    done
    generaledit
    setwindow form.find
    FORM find all_off
    FORM find cline_segs YES
    FORM find pins YES
    FORM find nets YES
    FORM find ratsnest_ts YES
    setwindow pcb

    # stop time: Wed Jan 24 08:35:34 2018

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