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Elevate your PCB layout with Altium Designer, download the available white sheet nowAltiumProtel International LimitedNick Matrin1985PCB. Altium Designer is a leading edge EDA software solution. It enables you to solve complex engineering problems, and create new electronic devices. Altium Limited' title='Altium Limited' />Online Documentation for Altium Products. Parent page Scripting. While the Altium Designer Scripting system provides the means to create sophisticated automated tasks for Altium Designer, the resulting scripts also need to be easily accessible during the design process. For example, a script created to perform a complex set of operations while editing a PCB should be readily available in the PCB Editor itself, where it can be executed with a mouse click or two. Altium Designer caters for this need by allowing a script to be assigned to a process launcher, and thereby a command that can be assigned to a server Menu, Toolbar and Shortcut. Executing scripts. To briefly recap, when open in the script editor, a script can be executed using the editors Run command or via the DXP Run Script menu. This requires the script project to be open in Altium Designer, which is not a convenient approach to accessing a script needed during the PCB design process, for example. A more suitable method to access a frequently used script is to install the project as a Global Project DXP Preferences, Scripting System Global Projects. In this case the project is automatically loaded when Altium Designer starts, and can be executed at any time via the DXP Run Script menu. The ideal way to access a scripts functionality however, is where it is integrated into Altium Designers GUI as a menu or toolbar command. This is normally a two step process implemeting a script as a Command with optional shortcut, then assigning the Command to a Menu static or pop up or a Toolbar. Script as a Command. A script can implemented as a server command by harnessing Altium Designers built in server processes, or more specifically, the Scripting. System Run. Script process. A command represents a performed action and is supported by a process string via a packaged process launcher. In the case of the the Scripting. System Run. Script process, it includes parameters for pointing to a specific script project file, a constituent script file. Run Process. Altium Designer processes are directly available via the DXP Run Process menu, where the Scripting. System Run. Script process can be selected and appropriate parameters added to execute the desired script. In the case of the sample Hello. World script for example, the entries would be as follows Process Scripting. System Run. Script. Parameters Project. Name Proc. Name   Process. Therefore, depending on the source path to the script the Parameters string would be similar to Project. NameC UsersPublicDocumentsAltiumDelphiscript ScriptsGeneralHello. World. PRJSCRProc. NameHello. World. Hello. World. Executing a script using the script process launcher via the Run Process dialog. While still not a particularly convenient way to execute a script during the design process, note that running the script as a process avoids the need to directly open the script or have it loaded as a Global Project. The second and more significant advantage of using the process method to run a script is that it can be implemented as an accessible Altium Designer command. This is done by customizing Altium Designers menu system, where a script can be assigned to a command for a nominated server. Create a Command. To assign the Hello. World script as a command for the PCB editor for example, open a PCB document and select DXP Customize from the main menu. To create a new command, click the New button in the Customizing PCB Editor dialog to open the Edit Command dialog where the server process and script path details can be included, as detailed for the Run Process dialog example above. The dialog also provides entry fields for a command caption, description, shortcut and associated bitmap image BMPGIF 1. Tip The required parameters can be copied from the actual script entry under the Scripts category in the Customize PCB Editor dialog. Ave Verum Karl Jenkins Pdf. Once copied, ensure that the Categories entry is no longer set to Scripts before creating the new command with the New button. With the details complete and the dialog dismissed OK the Hello. World script becomes available as a Custom command for the PCB Editor. Note that commands are implemented on a server basis, so a Custom command that has been created for the PCB Editor as above will not be available in other severs, such as the Schematic Editor or the Scripting System. External Application Command. An external application such as the Microsoft Notepad can be launched from Altium Designer through software control. In this case the command process and parameters entries would be Process Scripting. System Run. Script. Text. Parameters TextBegin Run. Applicationnotepad. End The server process in this case, Scripting. System Run. Script. Text, is literally running a sequence of script statements, rather than opening and running a specific script file as outlined above. The alternative approach is to create a script with a few equivalent lines of code, then create a conventional Scripting. System Run. Script command entry. Procedure Run. Notepad. Run. Applicationnotepad. End Note that for both approaches to implementing the external Notepad command it is sufficient to just enter notepad. Run. Application, rather than specify the applications full path and filename. Windows applications such as Calculator and Notepad have their paths already specified by the operating system. To launch an application from Altium Designer that does not have an inherent Windows path, the applications full path and filename need to be specified in single quotes, to cater for any white space in the path. So to launch a second copy of Altium Designer for example, the Run. Application process and parameters would be Run. ApplicationC Program Files x. AltiumADxxDXP. exe where xx represents is the Altium Designer version. Commands can be edited and removed directly from the customizing dialog in this case the Customizing PCB Editor dialog using the buttons at the bottom of the dialog. Assigning Menu Commands. With a script implemented as a custom server command via Altium Designers Customizing function DXP Customize as detailed above, it can be assigned to the server GUI by a simple drag and drop process. Toolbars. To assign a custom command to the PCB editors main menu or Toolbar menu for example, open the Customizing PCB Editor dialog, locate the custom command and drag it to the desired menu location. Note that a PCB document needs to be open to provide access to the PCB server menus. A custom command can be dragged to the required menu location. With the customizing dialog closed, the new menu command can be accessed at any time in the PCB editor. A new script command assigned to the PCB Toolbar. Since the new custom command has been assigned to the PCB Toolbar menu it can be seen under the PCB Standard command category in the Customizing PCB Editor dialog. When assigned to a menu, the custom script command will appear under that menus category in the customizing dialog. To remove a command from a menu, open the custom dialog then drag the menu command icon back into the dialog. Removing a command assigned to the Toolbar. When in customizing mode, commands assigned to a menu can also be edited and deleted by right clicking on the menu command itself. Menus. A custom command can be assigned to a menu, at any menu depth, using the same drag and drop process described above.