SKILL code to generate lower routes with same path properties of the selected path

Hi Neeraj,

The trouble is that the for() function always returns t, whereas you want something that returns an appended list of the contents from each time you call it.

What I suggest you do is something like this:

; first build a list of numbers
listOfNums=nil
for(i 1 via_cont listOfNums=tconc(listOfNums i))
listOfNums=car(listOfNums)
; then transform the list of numbers into a concatenated list of
; subrect lists
foreach(mapcan i listOfNums
  list(
    list(
      ?layer ...
    )
    list(
      ?layer ...
      ?sep -(((via1_w/2)+via1_spc)*(i+1)
       ...
    )
  )
)

The idea is that the body of the foreach(mapcan ..) returns a list of your three subrect definitions, and these will be concatenated - so if via_cont was 3, you'd end up with a list of 9 subrect definitions. If the foreach(mapcan ...) is the last thing in the branch of the cond(), it will be the return value to the ?subRect

There's several ways of skinning this cat, but the above is relatively straightforward.

Regards,

Andrew.

Hi andrew,

Thankyou very much. the code is working fine.

I am facing problem in determining the object type of selected instance/path/rect etc..

a=geGetSelSet() 

 x=a~>objType

if(x == "path" then

printf("this is a path") else printf("this is not a path"))

the above program when executed is not recognizing the objType and always prints the second statement.

Thanks & Regards

Neeraj Vardhan 

Neeraj,

That would be because geGetSelSet() returns a list of the selected objects, and so your variable a will be a list. Because of that, x will also be a list of object types - so it will be ("path") rather than "path". Commonly people write code that only deals with a single selected object, in which case if your first line was a=car(geGetSelSet()) it would work. Or instead you could do:

foreach(a geGetSelSet()
  x=a~>objType
  ...
)

and then it would do the statements in the body of the foreach for each selected object.

Regards,

Andrew