Skill code for turn rectangle metal to mesh in the virtuoso layout editor

Hi,

If you reply to the message thread in a browser you should see tabs across the top ("Compose", "Options"... ) - select Options and you should be able to upload a jpg/png image of what you are wanting to do.  A picture is worth a thousand words, so this would help I think.

Without seeing the desired result I would guess at using chop rectangles within the original rectangle to obtain a complex polygon with holes in it. Or perhaps replace it with horizontal and vertical overlapping strips and then merge into a single shape?  There might be multiple ways of doing this...

Best regards,

Lawrence.

If using IC615, you can either create metal slotting during creation of shapes (such as rectangles), or using Edit->Advanced->Slot.

So maybe that does what you want as a standard feature.

Regards,

Andrew.

skillUser said:

Hi,

If you reply to the message thread in a browser you should see tabs across the top ("Compose", "Options"... ) - select Options and you should be able to upload a jpg/png image of what you are wanting to do.  A picture is worth a thousand words, so this would help I think.

Without seeing the desired result I would guess at using chop rectangles within the original rectangle to obtain a complex polygon with holes in it. Or perhaps replace it with horizontal and vertical overlapping strips and then merge into a single shape?  There might be multiple ways of doing this...

Best regards,

Lawrence.

thanks for your suggest. But I do not know how to write skill language to implement this, can you help me this in detail?

I have posted some sort of screenshot as follow.I want to turn solid rectangle metal (left screenshot) to mesh (right screenshot) when I press the bindkey.

skillUser said:

Hi,

If you reply to the message thread in a browser you should see tabs across the top ("Compose", "Options"... ) - select Options and you should be able to upload a jpg/png image of what you are wanting to do.  A picture is worth a thousand words, so this would help I think.

Without seeing the desired result I would guess at using chop rectangles within the original rectangle to obtain a complex polygon with holes in it. Or perhaps replace it with horizontal and vertical overlapping strips and then merge into a single shape?  There might be multiple ways of doing this...

Best regards,

Lawrence.

thanks for your suggest. But I do not know how to write skill language to implement this, can you help me this in detail?

I have posted some sort of screenshot as follow.I want to turn solid rectangle metal (upper screenshot) to mesh (down screenshot) when I press the bindkey.

Andrew Beckett said:

If using IC615, you can either create metal slotting during creation of shapes (such as rectangles), or using Edit->Advanced->Slot.

So maybe that does what you want as a standard feature.

Regards,

Andrew.

Thanks a lot.But I use IC5141,so I have to write skill script.

Try this code. It will create a polygon instead of strips of metal.

procedure(meshSelected(@key (meshWidth 1.0) (cv geGetEditCellView()))
  let((shape box innerBox rects mesh)
    shape = car(selectedSet())
    box = shape~>bBox
    innerBox = list(xCoord(lowerLeft(box))+meshWidth:yCoord(lowerLeft(box))+meshWidth
                    xCoord(upperRight(box))-meshWidth:yCoord(upperRight(box))-meshWidth)
    rects = rodFillBBoxWithRects(
        ?cvId geGetEditCellView()
        ?layer "y0"
        ?fillBBox innerBox
        ?width meshWidth
        ?length meshWidth
        ?spaceX meshWidth
        ?spaceY meshWidth
        ?gap 'minimum ;optionally 'distribute
    )

    mesh = dbLayerAndNot(cv shape~>lpp list(shape) rects 1000) ;last # is max # of vertices
    dbDeleteObject(shape)
    mapcar('dbDeleteObject rects)
    mesh
  ) ;let
) ;proc

Select your piece of metal and run this command, filling in the appropriate number for the width of your holes. I coded a default of 1.0. Also, the program above keeps the holes at a minimum space (meshWidth). If your rectangle is not a perfect multiple of the meshWidth, you'll end up with wide strips at the top and right. You can change the ?gap argument to be 'distribute and the mesh will be more even.

meshSelected(?meshWidth 2.0)

Derek

dmay said:

Try this code. It will create a polygon instead of strips of metal.

procedure(meshSelected(@key (meshWidth 1.0) (cv geGetEditCellView()))
  let((shape box innerBox rects mesh)
    shape = car(selectedSet())
    box = shape~>bBox
    innerBox = list(xCoord(lowerLeft(box))+meshWidth:yCoord(lowerLeft(box))+meshWidth
                    xCoord(upperRight(box))-meshWidth:yCoord(upperRight(box))-meshWidth)
    rects = rodFillBBoxWithRects(
        ?cvId geGetEditCellView()
        ?layer "y0"
        ?fillBBox innerBox
        ?width meshWidth
        ?length meshWidth
        ?spaceX meshWidth
        ?spaceY meshWidth
        ?gap 'minimum ;optionally 'distribute
    )

    mesh = dbLayerAndNot(cv shape~>lpp list(shape) rects 1000) ;last # is max # of vertices
    dbDeleteObject(shape)
    mapcar('dbDeleteObject rects)
    mesh
  ) ;let
) ;proc

Select your piece of metal and run this command, filling in the appropriate number for the width of your holes. I coded a default of 1.0. Also, the program above keeps the holes at a minimum space (meshWidth). If your rectangle is not a perfect multiple of the meshWidth, you'll end up with wide strips at the top and right. You can change the ?gap argument to be 'distribute and the mesh will be more even.

meshSelected(?meshWidth 2.0)

Derek

Thanks a lot,Derek.I will try it.

 It works for me. Thanks for posting it.