{"id":1083,"date":"2013-01-25T09:44:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T16:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/jimmartens\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:19:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:19:46","slug":"pads-tips-and-tricks-assigning-a-shortcut-key-to-a-macro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/2013\/01\/25\/pads-tips-and-tricks-assigning-a-shortcut-key-to-a-macro\/","title":{"rendered":"PADS Tips and Tricks &#8211; Assigning a Shortcut Key to a Macro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you written a macro and want to execute it quickly and easily with a custom defined shortcut key?\u00a0 That&#8217;s easy to do in <a title=\"PADS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pads.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PADS<\/a>!\u00a0 Application Note MG579433, written by Bill Tkachuk and Todd Hendren, give you step-by-step directions on how to record a macro, then assign it to a shortcut key of your choice.<\/p>\n<p>You can find the app note at <a href=\"https:\/\/supportnet.mentor.com\/reference\/appnotes\/index.cfm?id=MG579433\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/supportnet.mentor.com\/reference\/appnotes\/index.cfm?id=MG579433<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you written a macro and want to execute it quickly and easily with a custom defined shortcut key?\u00a0 That&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16541,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16541"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10353,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions\/10353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}