PCB Designer 16.6

[Kartohen]

Is this plugin supported for PCB Designer 16.6? It shows me an error for the board from example.

[juulsA]

Unfortunetly this is a question I can't answer ... all programming and tests were done with 17.4. Based on the error I can guess, that the program is trying to access a value from an element that does not exist ... I try to add some debug messages to the code, so we can figure where this is happening ... thanks to cadence the line where the error occurs is not printed to the console ... but please give me some time for this.

[juulsA]

another hint: all actions need to be completed / closed by clicking 'done', otherwise the skill scripts often do not run properly ... but I don't think, that this is the case here ...

[Kartohen]

I've found the place where this error appears in the code:

Changing var Extents helps to avoid error.

[juulsA]

Thanks for your help! Maybe I have to add some lines of code, so that the script does not run into this error ... maybe the pcb editor 16.6 does not support the dsn->designOutline or the axlDBGetExtents call ... could you check what is the output of the outline, segments and extents by typing the following to the skill command line?

open the skill comand line ( set teslkill )

dsn = axlDBGetDesign()
outline = dsn->designOutline

outline should print somethings like this dbid:000001B548763A30

segments = outline->segments

should print a list of dbids

extents = axlDBGetExtents( segments nil )

prints two coordinates, if everything works as intended.

[Kartohen]

On the next step I receive this error:

[juulsA]

seems like version 16.6 and 17.4 differs in their default layers ... the BOARD GEOMETRY/CUTOUT is a fixed layer in 17.4 ...
If you don't have any cutouts you can comment the whole "add cutout to edges list" commands (add a ; to each line)

cutout = car( axlDBGetShapes( "BOARD GEOMETRY/CUTOUT" ) )
segments = cutout->segments

    foreach( segment segments
        ; parse segment
        if( pcbLinewidth then 
            element = parseSegment( segment pcbLinewidth )  
        else
            element = parseSegment( segment segment->width )  
        )

        if( boundp( 'edges ) then
            tconc( edges element )
        else
            edges = tconc( nil element )
        )      
    )

or change the layer name to the correct layer name.

[Kartohen]

I have this result for Outline:

[Kartohen]

I've added ; to all lines

But error is the same:

[Kartohen]

I've added ; to the next block:

Now the next error is:

[juulsA]

okay... yeah, sorry, I forgot, that we don't have any information for the board outline now (dsn->boardOutline is nil) ... and edges is an unbound ... maybe we can check, if this is the only error we are running in.

Please do the following:

Comment out the addBoardGeometry and execute exportJson

The function should complete, if there are no further "mistakes". If this works, we try to find a solution for our initial problem.

[Kartohen]

After commenting export did complete. Would it be useful to attach .json file here?

[Kartohen]

I have this list of layers:

[juulsA]

After commenting export did complete. Would it be useful to attach .json file here?

No, I don't need the .json file, but now we know, that we just need to modify the addBoardGeometry function.

Does this prints any dbids?

segments = car( axlDBGetShapes( "Board Geometry/Design_Outline" ) )

[Kartohen]

[Kartohen]

I set extents = margin to prevent error about nil, if it matters.