Library Decal expoted

[phillipr]

Hi

Is it possible for someone to send me a Sample of an Exported Library Decal From Allegro.
If there is a document on the format available that would be even better.

[cadpro2k]

Here you are Phillip. Typical 0805 resisitor.

.psm is the part that imports to layout.
.dra is the part that's editable with Allegro.

Mitch

[cadpro2k]

Phillip,

If you're looking at doing the Allegro stuff, I have an old perl script that generates the footprint 'script file'. If you know perl let me know and we can see about updating the script to generate the footprints. BTW, allegro uses a different footprint strategy than PADS, that's why I've converted PADS parts and mod'd them to be useable with the allegro tool. Let me know if I can help. I'd love to have an allegro 'wizard' that could create all these parts.

Mitch

[phillipr]

Mitch

Thanks for your Response.
Is it possible to get an ascii style Output of a library decal that is Readable In notepad or is this not possible?

Phill

[cadpro2k]

Hah!

You've found the difficulty of developing an Allegro library. Cadence doesn't work in ASCII format when dealing with Allegro, except for log files and reports. All their database info is binary, sorry. You can import a .asc file into Allegro, but no output to ASCII.

Sorry.

[phillipr]

Hmmmm

Thats a pain in the A%* lol
Ok so how is the .Asc import generated in the first place?
and how can i get hold of a file?

Phill