Forum Post: RE: Skill code to change Metal width
Hi, I just tried your code and it works just fine after pressing Enter instead of ESC in the CIW. It brings back the window it was invoked from on focus and the instance is updated. Regards, Petar
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Skill code to change Metal width
Hi Petar, Thanks for the reply, Here I don't want to bring CIW in between the code running. regards Manju
View ArticleForum Post: RE: How to create a menu icon for toggling via partial selection.
Hi Aurelien Thank you for the help. It worked. I just need one more help. I also want the same for mosaics. I am also trying to put the icons on menu bar anyway with the help of SKILL because I want...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Using extracta to extract symbol properties in SKILL
Hi AsbjornEdvalds I believe I understand what you want to do but I'm not clear about extracta not being able to access symbol properties ... If I launch the custom report UI I can see this: Am I...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Using extracta to extract symbol properties in SKILL
Hi Juan, Running the "reports" function within a .dra file will output the correct fields, but when trying to use the extracta command from the ipcBeginProcess using SKILL from within a .brd file,...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: How to create a menu icon for toggling via partial selection.
Ganesh, This isn't a foolproof method, but in many cases you can go to Options→Cdsenv Editor in the CIW and search for something relevant. For example, search for "partial". Then in the Layout Editor,...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: How to create a menu icon for toggling via partial selection.
Hi Andrew Beckett , I know this has already been discussed but it would be very helpful if the Cdsenv Editor had those improvements : A description column with documentation for most variables The...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Update Title Block according to variant and using trigger...
HI j im OMahony , I have attached the zip file. I did some addition of the command to enable when user switch to variant mode. Please source the tcl script and switch in variant mode to see the...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Skill code to change Metal width
Hi Manju, There might be different approaches to achieve what you want I remembered this thread about bindkeys triggered using a succession of characters : How to create two or three key strokes...
View ArticleForum Post: Unable to fins shape symbol path
Hi team, I have devloped shape symbols (.ssm) for any custom/irregular shapes that will be used in a pad stack. I am not sure how to update this shape in this library. It would be really nice if some...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Why LT1763.lib doesnt work in PSpice?
The LT1763 LIB files uses A devices, these are proprietary to LTSpice and don't have a direct equivalent in PSpice / SPICE. You could look at implementing the A device functionality from scratch but...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Unable to fins shape symbol path
Hi, Under the paths in the user preference editor within the PCB editor, you can find the "psmpath" variable. That variable defines the paths of shape symbols which both the PCB editor and the...
View ArticleForum Post: Button to select instance from schematic
Hello, I've been searching for hours for a simple solution, but I can't find anything. I have a Form (hiCreateAppForm) and I would like to have a button that when clicked : Open a schematic (selected...
View ArticleForum Post: Some comments regarding Cadence (OrCAD/Allegro) Documentation...
Since this is not really a support request but merely some comments and since I know that people from Cadence sometimes browses these forum I thaught that I should post some opinons here... Having...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Update Title Block according to variant and using trigger...
Hi, thanks for the callback info. At the moment I am not getting any automatic change in the value of the property PN when I change the variant view. The RegisterAction command had a missing " which I...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Button to select instance from schematic
Hi Adrien, I don't believe there is a simple solution to what you are looking for... A solution would be to use enterPoint but you would have to manage cases according to what is clicked (and I am not...
View ArticleForum Post: transfer normal hot key layer to the function recall style
Hi! I already done my script for the hot key set, but wanna make the script shorter and easy maintain, hence I think aybe use the function recall, I wanna use group list or foreach syntax and make...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Generating Live BOM in OrCAD X Capture CIS
I have gone to Tools menu however Live Bom is greyed out I have orcad 23.1 S001 in which I use CIP and cis is live bom compatible with CIS and cip or do i have to host my files in the cloud
View ArticleForum Post: RE: transfer normal hot key layer to the function recall style
How about something like this (if I've understood you correctly): procedure(smwLayersVisible(layerList @optional (visible t)) let((lpp) foreach(layer layerList lpp=if(listp(layer) then layer else...
View ArticleForum Post: hiInsertMenuItem Error When Adding Custom Menu to CIW with .cdsinit
Hi, When I loading below code with SKILL IDE it adds a custom menu to CIW window and doesn't give any error for IC23.1-64b.ISR3.27. However, for again same Virtuoso version if I load the code at...
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