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Issue creating VIAs in SKILL

egolowen

Hi,

I am using a replay file in order to instantiate a bunch of VIAs in a layout. I first tried creating the VIAs manually (which worked just fine) and took the commands which came up into the CIW and used those in my SKILL code generated replay file.
Howver, when I run the SKILL code the VIAs aren't being created and I get the following error:
*WARNING* (VIA-3179): Cannot create via at selected location. An intersection of two shapes must be indicated.

Here is the code I am using (where cmds is my replay file and object is the VIA definition):
fprintf(cmds "leHiCreateVia()\n")
fprintf(cmds "le0ViaForm->viaSingleModeScrollView->viaDefName->value=\"%s\"\n" object)
fprintf(cmds "leSetEnv(\"orientation\" \"%s\")\n" orient)
fprintf(cmds "%f:%f\n" x y)

Like I mentioned earlier, adding in the VIAs manually has no issues.
I'm not sure if this is something to do with environment settings or my actual SKILL code - any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Elizabeth

  • Andrew Beckett

    Hi Elizabeth,

    You'd probably be better off using dbCreateVia (maybe using lxComputeViaParams() to compute the parameters you need for the vias), rather than trying to replay interactive commands.

    There are quite a few posts in these forums related to placing vias, so if you do some searching on these functions, you'll hopefully find something useful.

    Kind Regards,

    Andrew.

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