How to rotate subrects defined in the rodCreateRect?

Hi Lei,

I'm pretty unclear to what your problem actually is. Perhaps you can illustrate it with some code snippets (and maybe some pictures)?

Regards,

Andrew.

Hi,

The schematic of a cross-shape resistor is attached.

I would like to use a function such as rodCreateRect to build both the horizontal and vertical contacts (CT) at the same time.

In the definition of rodCreateRect:

rodCreateRect(

?layer Ndiff

...

?elementsX 2

?elementsY 2

?spaceX ..

?spaceY ..

...)

If I write the program like this, I could only get the horizontal CTs correctly, and the vertical CTs would be right if got rotate to 90 degree.

Can't you just call rodCreateRect() twice, for the two sets of rectangles? Or am I misunderstanding something?

Regards,

Andrew.

Indeed, I could do that, however, it is only useful for simple contacts. If I want to add some metal connections through these contacts and each of them are of different direction(I mean each contacts and its connections are rotated to 90 degree clockwisely), then I have to call the function 4 times which is not efficient at all(since all these figures are the same).

I think I may now understand what you're saying - you want to do the rodCreateRect() with ?subRectArray specified, and then do a dbMoveFig() on the master rectangle to rotate it? (a code example would have made this much simpler to guess). If so, the problem is that the subRects do not rotate.

I think the only way you can do that is:

shapes=cons(rodId~>dbId rodId~>subShapes)
rodUnNameShape(rodId)
foreach(shape shapes dbMoveFig(shape cvId list(0:0 "R90")))

In other words, you have to do a rodUnNameShape and then manipulate the individual objects that have been produced.

I suggest you log a service request to see if a "ROD" way of doing this can be added which keeps it as a ROD object.

Regards,

Andrew.

Hi Andrew,

Thank you so much for your suggestion! It helps.

I used dbCopyFig instead of dbMoveFig since I would like to keep the original figures and make another copys.

Again, thanks.

Lei

shapes=cons(rodId~>dbId rodId~>subShapes)
rodUnNameShape(rodId)
foreach(shape shapes dbMoveFig(shape cvId list(0:0 "R90")))

I have tested the above program on different icfb platforms:

For IC 5.10.41-USR5.92.69, it works fine.

For IC 5.10.41.169, it fails.

I do not know how to fix this problem.

Thanks!

Lei

Lei,

Given that 5.10.41.169 is the "Base" release of IC5141, released nearly 7 years ago, I suspect that what you're seeing is a bug in that release (I didn't try it). Using such an old base release without taking advantage of any of the 6 Update releases or 147 hotfixes there have been in the last 6.75 years makes little sense anyway...

Even USR5 is nearly 4 years old...

I think that the SKILL code is correct.

Regards,

Andrew.