layer coordinates

 Hello! marbs,

select the desired layer and type the following in CIW window..

geGetSelSet()~>??

with the above line you will find all the attributes/properties  ...

eg: geGetSelSet()~>bBox

If you know the attribute/property name you can also try this below line...

dbGetq(car(geGetSelSet()) "bBox")

Best regards..

Prabhakar. K -- Layout Engineer 

Hi,

I will add a little to what Prabhakar said though it is correct that ~>?? will show you all of the attributes and their values belonging to a database object. To be explicit, the ~>points attribute will give you the coordinates of a polygonal shape, and ~>bBox can be used for a rectangular shape. Other shapes, for example a donut, have other attributes such as innerRadius and outerRadius, so the answer to the question will depend on what type of shape you have.

Also, you may be wanting to find shape information based on the name of a layer-purpose pair, rather than selecting a shape in the layout. In this case, you can query based on the LPP object as a starting point, for example the following will show bounding box information for all shapes on the ("metal1" "drawing") layer-purpose:

  lpId = car(setof(lp geGetEditCellView()~>lpps lp~>layerName == "metal1" && lp~>purpose == "drawing"))
  lpId~>shapes~>bBox

I hope that this information also helps!

Regards,

Lawrence.

 Hi,

where can I get a skill code example to put in a txt file all cordinates based on layer-purpose pair?

Thanks,

Giuseppe 

Hi Giuseppe,

The coordinates of what?

Regards,

Andrew.

 Hi Giuseppe,

Do you mean the coordinates of each shape on a specific layer purpose pair?

If this is the case then you would find the appropriate layer-purpose pair object and then iterate over the shapes of that, if a polygon simply write the points, if a rectangle then derive the points (a "rect" is defined by its bBox which is only two points, lower left and upper right), and if antoher shape, say a path, do what? For a path the points could be derived also, though you might need to take account of the path end style (flush, extend etc.)

Can you clarify what you are looking for exactly?

Regards,

Lawrence.