schViewToView

pinList=schSchemToPinList("mylib" "mycell" "schematic")
pinList->prop->schCvCreationMethod="Modify"
schPinListToView("mylib" "mycell" "symbol" pinList "schPinListToSymbolGen")

Should do it.

Andrew.

It works. Thanks and Happy New Year!

Best regards,

Lien, E-Jen 

Hi Andrew,

  The schPinListToView function works, however the pins added are not touching the rect of the symbol.  Is there a way to add pins to the symbol that touches the rect boundary?

Thanks

In order to do this, you'd need to change the TSG (Text to Symbol Generator) template. I did it by copying the <ICinstDir>/tools/dfII/samples/symbolGen/artist.tsg (pick whichever template you normally use on the Create->CellView from Cellview route) to a local file, myArtist.tsg. I then edited this file and changed the wireLength to 0.0 (in the symbolParams section). More details can be found in the Text to Symbol Generator appendix (Appendix C in the version I'm using) of the Virtuoso Schematic Editor L User Guide.

Then:

tsgTemplateMasters=cons(list("myArtist" strcat(getWorkingDir() "/myArtist.tsg")) tsgTemplateMasters)
envSetVal("schematic" "tsgTemplateType" 'string "myArtist")

The first adds the path to your modified template into the master list, and then the second specifies the template you want to use. This will be consumed by the schPinListToView function above, and  you'll end up with pins directly on the box of the symbol without any pin legs.

Regards,

Andrew.

Hi Andrew,

I updated symbolParam wireLength to 0.0 but it doesn't change anything.  pins are still create below the rect shape in "device" "drawing". 

        symbolParam(
            origin = topLeftPin
            wireSpacing = 0.125000
            wireLength = 0.000000
            labelHeight = 0.062500
            vSideLength = 0.000000
            hSideLength = 0.000000
        )

I'm trying to post process these pins and legs by rotating them and moving them to the left side of the rect shape.  However, schHiRotate(t) doesn't rotate them.

I'd like to select all lable/rect/line below ycoord = xxx, rotate  to R90, move them to the left side of the device rect :

rect=car(setof(x cv~>shapes x~>objType=="rect" && x~>net==nil && car(x~>lpp)=="device"))
topLeftXY=list(caar(rect~>bBox) cadadr(rect~>bBox))

shapeList = setof(x cv~>shapes cadar(x~>bBox)<cadadr(rect~>bBox))
;;roate all shapeList to R90
;;Move them to topLeftXY

could you guide through the last two steps.  Thanks.

I think your question would have been easier to understand if you'd included a picture of what the problem was. Having re-read, you may have been talking about creating the symbol in modify mode rather than replacing the existing symbol? That's just a guess though.

Andrew