Flattening the Multipart Path

Hi Shushanik,

There's not a direct command for this (I think). You could do a convert to polygon, but that will result in one of the objects being a polygon (but will have the side effect from exploding the MPP).

This SKILL will do it though. Select the multi-part-path, and then do:

rodUnNameShape(rodGetObj(car(geGetSelSet())))

Regards,

Andrew.

 Hi Andrew,

Thank you very much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

 Hi,

One additional information:

If you include your multipart path object inside one cell, and you flatten that cell with the option: "Preserve ROD Object"  ->disabled then you will get a flattened multipart path.

The question would be: shouldn't flatten form accept MPPif "preserve rod objects" is disabled?
From my point of view, if I want to use flatten form and I don't want to preserve rod objects, it means that the result of the flatten action should be: NO ROD object, but this is NOT working with actual flatten form.

Adrian,

An MPP is not a hierarchical object - so you're not "flattening" it. All the shapes are in the same level of hierarchy as the MPP. I think what you're saying is that the flatten command ought to be able to unname a rod object?

Rather strangely I found that Convert Path to Polygon actually converts the MPP into individual shapes (but doesn't convert them to polygons). I suspect that's an unintended side effect!

Andrew.

 Hi Andrew,

Nice observation with convert to polygon :)

Regarding the Flattening topic: I udnerstand now the idea with the shapes on the same level, but I still would/could see <flattening form with preserve ROD objects disabled> as a black box which would have as result a list of objects which are NOT ROD, not inst, not via, not mosaic :)

Anyhow, thanks for the explanation.

BR,

Adrian

Hi Andrew,

        Is it possible to get the database Id's of the individual paths after using rodUnNameShape(rodGetObj(car(geGetSelSet()))) command. Please suggest me.

Thanks,

 Prasad. 

Prasad,

Get the shapes prior to unnaming it. So do:

rodId=rodGetObj(car(geGetSelSet()))
shapes=cons(rodId~>dbId rodId~>subShapes)
rodUnNameShape(rodId)

The shapes variable will have all of the member shapes (both master and sub shapes).

Regards,

Andrew.