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Instance True BBox value

psill000

Just try to keep the script simple.

 

Is there a variable that will give the TrueBBox value of an instance in layiout or will I have to look in the cellview and get the prBoundary bbox??

 

Thanks

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  • What do you mean by TrueBBox? Are you talking about what the useTrueBBox env var does, which is to show the bounding box as the instance layer (if present) or the actual bounding box otherwise (also the instanceDrawingMode env var has an effect here - you can choose to display using the prBoundary instead of the instance layer).

    The actual bounding box is given by instId~>bBox, but any bounding box based on a particular layer or object would require looking inside the object. If it's the prBoundary you want, that's easy - you could just do:

    inst~>master~>prBoundary~>bBox || inst~>bBox

    (this is for IC61, since prBoundary is a separate object, and so no searching of layers is needed). This expression will give you the box for the prBoundary if it is there, or falls back to the overall bounding box if not.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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