Layer Generation of Multiple Layers in Virtuoso

Something like this SKILL could be used - it has a keyword argument, so you can also pass in the list of layers to copy to:

procedure(CCFcopyPrBoundaryToLPPs(@key 
        (cvId geGetEditCellView())
        (lpps list(
            list("m1block" "drawing") list("m2block" "drawing") 
            list("m3block" "drawing") list("m4block" "drawing") 
            list("m5block" "drawing") list("m6block" "drawing") 
            )
        )
    )
    let((points)
        points=cvId~>prBoundary~>points
        unless(points
            error("CellView does not contain prBoundary\n")
        )
        foreach(lpp lpps
            dbCreatePolygon(cvId lpp points)
        )
        t
    )
)

For example: CCFcopyPrBoundaryToLPPs(?lpps list(list("M1nofill" "drawing") list("M2nofill" "drawing")))

Change the code as you need to set suitable defaults.

Andrew

Thanks, Andrew. I will try this solution and see if it works.

Hi Andrew, Thanks it works perfectly.
Just a follow-up question. What if I would like to change the reference polygon from prboundary "boundary" to for example M1 "drawing" how should I change your SKILL script?

Hi Perry,

What would that mean if you have multiple M1 drawing shapes? Do you want to duplicate all of them? There's only ever one prBoundary object, so that's easy - but you could have many M1 drawing shapes...

Andrew 

Hi Andrew,
Sorry for the bad example.
What I mean is I would also like to make a SKILL script that will also work with prboundary "drawing", currently it is working with prboundary "boundary".
It would be great if it could work on both of these layers.

prBoundary (in OpenAccess releases) is not a shape drawn on a layer-purpose-pair. It's an object in its own right - and does not have a layer or purpose. It's drawn using the packet for the prBoundary/boundary layer-purpose, but it's not stored in the database as a shape on a layer-purpose. Because it's a distinct object, there can only be a single prBoundary polygon in the cellView.

It's created using Create->P&R Objects->P&R Boundary.

So it doesn't really help - if you are talking about something on "prBoundary drawing" then that must be a shape, and a non-conventional way of describing the prBoundary (unless of course you're using IC5141, which would have been quite important to mention, since in IC5141 various special objects were drawn as shapes with special meaning). Shapes on prBoundary/drawing don't really mean anything, and there also could be many of them.

To summarise, I'm not sure what you want - or whether you really do have shapes on prBoundary/drawing (if so, why?), or how it should deal with multiple such shapes?

Andrew

Hi Andrew, thanks for the detailed explanation.
The thing is, I am working with multiple layouts and some of them are using prBoundary "drawing" and some are using prBoundary "boundary" (See attached image).
I was wondering if it is possible to make the SKILL script work on both layers instead of changing all to prBoundary "boundary".

Just because you see them in the layer palette doesn't necessarily mean the prBoundary/boundary is a normal shape - and if it is, it's probably not being used genuinely as a prBoundary because the tools won't recognise that.

Anyway, this function would allow you to copy from an arbitrary layer-purpose pair to multiple layers:

procedure(CCFcopyLPPtoLPPs(LPP @key
        (cvId geGetEditCellView())
        (lpps list(
            list("m1block" "drawing") list("m2block" "drawing") 
            list("m3block" "drawing") list("m4block" "drawing") 
            list("m5block" "drawing") list("m6block" "drawing") 
            )
        )
    )
    foreach(lpp lpps
        leLayerOr(cvId LPP LPP lpp)
    )
    t
)

Just use: CCFcopyLPPtoLPPs(list("prBoundary" "drawing")) or also pass ?lpps as with the other function above. I kept it simple and used leLayerOr to copy (and merge) all of the shapes from a layer-purpose to another.

Andrew

Hi Andrew Beckett,
Good morning

I was looking for a similar SKILL script, but for deletion of layers.
My idea is to replace

     dbCreatePolygon(cvId lpp points)

with

     leHiDelete(cvId lpp points)

But it is not working.

Please help.

Best regards,
Tom

Tom,

That won't work, because leHiDelete takes a window id as an optional argument, not cvId, layer-purpose and points. It's intended to be an interactive function.

I've no idea what you're trying to do here - the code is intended to create new shapes on a layer from the points on a prBoundary object. I don't know what you're trying to delete, or why you'd start from the points of the prBoundary.

Andrew