You just have to put this file (allegro.stroke) in your "$HOME/pcbenv" directory. or load in Allegro: Syntax strokefile <filename> Procedure Specifying a File Containing Your Own Strokes Type strokefile <filename> at the console window prompt. PCB Editor, APD looks for stroke files in this order: in the current working directory, the \pcbenv directory, or in $cdsroot\share\pcb\text directory, unless you specify a full path name in the filename argument. ----- Original Message ----- From: lthemanz To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 11:46 AM Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: mouse change w/15.5 How do you read them into Cadence? ----- Original Message ---- From: Jean Louison <jean.louison@xxxxxxxxxx> To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, May 6, 2006 3:50:19 AM Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: mouse change w/15.5 You can use this file: I had "Mentor like" strokes with sted tool. Jean. ----- Original Message ----- From: Bolman, Shirley H To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 9:21 PM Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: mouse change w/15.5 In a previous life, I was doing schematic entry in Mentor and learned the "strokes"! Wow they were just great. Once you get used to them they are very powerful. When I started up on Cadence I found they had only a few strokes and most of them didn't work well so I went back to using function keys for the basic things. Of course it doesn't help much that Cadence follows the Select a process then select the thing the process is to affect. Whereas Mentor you select the item, then tell it what process you want to use. One of these days I will train my Cadence tool how to use strokes better but as a librarian there are only a few basic things I need now. Shirley in Oregon