Derek,
It's been a while since I've done it but a few years back when I
worked at 3Com we did did a lot of ascii manipulation of viewdraw
files. If you are running on UNIX the shell scripts alone are very
powerfull. PERL is even better although I never learned it. The fact
that viewdraw schematics are stored in ascii format makes it very
easy to use scripts to automatically update part info or even change
a drawing number on multiple sheets with a short UNIX shell script.
Good Luck
At 10:30 AM 12/2/98 -0000, Derek Wynne wrote:
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>I need a bit of advice on ASCII manipulation of design information.=20
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>It's more of an open question really.
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>"What is your opinion of using scripts to post process netlists and
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>"Where would be a good place to start learning how to do this ?"
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>Many of the design engineers here are voicing objections to manually
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>using (PERL?)scripts to add this information into the Partslist from a
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>central database. Up to now I considered the Schematic to be the "GOLD"
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>document containing all the information required, so I am nervous about
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>taking this route. What is the probability of introducing new errors to
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>the design using this method ?
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>The proposed method is to take a Viewdraw Partslist file, run a PERL
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>script that will extract information from an access database, and
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>create a finished BOM that can be sent to our assembler. Of course I =
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>expected to write this script, an area I have little experience in :-)
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>Any advice ,comments, etc. welcome as always.
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>Regards;
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>etc. They want the process simplified by using (PERL?)scripts to =
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