I am seeing some strange issues in 16.5 with symbol & pads paths. When I create a new board I have to go in to the user preferences\Paths \Library each time to edit where I want Allegro to pull pads and symbols from. The issue is that the env file seems to get over written between designs with the cadence defaults for library locations. If I edit the locations they get written to the env file and everything works good. If I make the env file "Read Only" my paths to symbols and pads do not get blown out between designs.
I am using a folder called c:\Allegro_Libs and under that folder there are sub folders for both symbols and padstacks. I also notice that I have to put the actual sub folder path in the "PSMPath" otherwise Allegro wont see the libs. It appears that the program does not traverse sub folders relative to the root folder path, is this correct ?
I prefer to use a folder that is not in the cadence sub folder path for my libs etc as it is easier to maintain.
Thanks Scott