{"id":1724,"date":"2013-10-14T09:26:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T16:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/jimmartens\/?p=1724"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:20:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:20:37","slug":"custom-scripts-to-increase-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/2013\/10\/14\/custom-scripts-to-increase-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Custom Scripts to Increase Productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many engineers and designers, no matter what tool they use, take advantage of custom scripts to help them accomplish a specific task. EDA vendors address these different ways.\u00a0 Some with app stores, or \u201cfor fee\u201d tools to develop such scripts.<\/p>\n<p>PADS, on the other hand, remains an open system to allow access to the data.\u00a0 Whether it\u2019s access to the ASCII database, or directly to the data via automation methods, we let our users write the scripts they need or want.\u00a0 PADS also delivers a basic programming engine to help!\u00a0 A bunch of VB scripts are delivered with the software, for you to use, or use as a \u201ctemplate\u201d to see how to easily modify these, or create your own.<\/p>\n<p>There are also several scripts posted on the PADS Community at <a href=\"http:\/\/communities.mentor.com\/mgcx\/community\/pcb\/pads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/communities.mentor.com\/mgcx\/community\/pcb\/pads<\/a>.\u00a0 And we encourage customers to post their own in the communities to help other designers.<\/p>\n<p>Are you using scripts to help you design, or generate reports?\u00a0 Let us know what you do.\u00a0 Better yet, post the script in the PADS Community so others can benefit as well!<\/p>\n<p>Jim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many engineers and designers, no matter what tool they use, take advantage of custom scripts to help them accomplish a&#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-1724","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\/1724","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=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10378,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions\/10378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}