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how to copy a cellview from a different cell

kristin

Hello,

 I'm trying to copy an cellview to a new target cellview by

1. cv-car(selectedSet()) - this is from the same targeting cellview

2. cv=dbOpenCellViewByType(sameLib differentCell "layout" "maskLayout" "r") - this cell includes multi polygons

then use dbCopyFig(cv nil list(0:0 "R0" 1.0))

1 (objType=inst) works fine, but 2(objType=cellView) does not work. Anyone's help will be appreciated.

Thanks

K

  • Hi Kristin

    Just to clarify your question a litte, do you mean that you are trying to do the following?

    src=dbOpenCellViewByType("myLib" "myCell1" "layout")
    dest=dbOpenCellViewByType("myLib" "myCell2" "layout")
    dbCopyFig(src dest)

    If my understanding of your question is correct, then it will not work because dbCopyFig is not meant for copying cellviews (hence the word "Fig" in the cmd name). Please let me know if I have misunderstood your question. : )

    If you would like to copy the contents of an entire cellview to another existing cellview, perhaps you can do this:

    src=dbOpenCellViewByType("myLib" "myCell1" "layout")
    dest=dbOpenCellViewByType("myLib" "myCell2" "layout")

    geSelectAllFig(src)
    allFig=geGetSelSet(src)
    foreach(x allFig
       dbCopyFig(x dest)
    ) ;foreach

    dbSave(dest)
    dbClose(src)
    dbClose(dest)


    Best regards
    Quek

  • Quek,

    What I’m trying to do is to

        build a sub mosaic as “myLib” “myCell1” “layout”, where has multi layers, shapes and polygons
        in the pcell “myLib” “dest” “layout”, read in src=dbOpenCellViewByType(“myLib” “myCell1” "layout" "maskLayout" "r"),

    to build a new cell dest by a switch (either on or off), with the “myLib” “meCell1” specified in the CDF entry. I re-try the foolowing, that seems to be working.

                  cdfId = cdfGetInstCDF(src)

                  offsetX = evalstring(cdfFindParamByName(cdfId "OffsetX")~>value)*1e6

                  offsetY = evalstring(cdfFindParamByName(cdfId "OffsetY")~>value)*1e6

      newShape = dbCreateSimpleMosaic(cvId src nil offsetX:offsetY "R90" 1 1 1 1)

    However, the problem is that I need to load the code each time when re-opening the cellview that has the pcell, even though the switch is on. If I change the offset values, the session crashed.

    Is there any better way to do, if I also want to be able to set offsets/oritations that specified by CDF?

    Thanks

    K
  • Hi Kristin,

    What you're trying to do is pretty unclear. First of all, src seems to be a cellView, but you're using cdfGetInstCDF on it - that would expect an instance Id.

    You say you are changing the offset values, but where? This wouldn't trigger a pcell using src to reevaluate.

    Perhaps you'd be better off posting a complete example, rather than just snippets - you may not be pinpointing exactly where the problem lays.

    Regards,

    Andrew

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