How to add a subRectangles in a separated offsetSubPath ?

You have to create the rectangles offset from the master path, just like you do the subpath. The subrectangle arguments you will use are ?sep and ?justification. Details in the ROD SKILL Reference, search for rodCreatePath.

Ted

Hi Ted,

Thanks very much for your reply .

I will try it tomorrow .

Best regards,

Marbs

Hi Ted,

Heres the code I added.

; Begin adding subrect
                          ?offsetSubRect
                                    list(
                                         list(
                                              ?layer       list("CONT" "drawing")
                                              ?beginOffset 1.97
                                              ?length 0.22
                                              ?space 0.28
                                              ?sep  1
                                              ?justification "center"
                                              ?choppable t
                                              )
                                         )                        



                         ; End adding subrect

but I've got an error as below :

*Error* rodCreatePath: unrecognized keyword - ?offsetSubRect

*Error* load: error while loading file - "*loadstring*"

t

Best regards,

Marbs

Hi Ted,

Thanks for your reply.

I have got now sub rectangles using skill .

The only problem now is I only have one line of rectangle .

If I want to make it two lines of rectangle, how to do it ?

below is my skill code .

        contNum = fix((pathWidth-(2*minEnc_M1_Cont)+minS_Cont)/(minW_Cont+minS_Cont))
        offset = minus((minW_Cont+minS_Cont)*(contNum-1))/2.0
        subRectList = list()
        for(i 0 contNum-1
        subRectList = append1(subRectList
            list(?layer list("CONT" "drawing")
                    ?width minW_Cont
                    ?length minW_Cont
                    ?space minS_Cont
                    ?gap "minimum"
                    ?sep 0.5
                    ?beginOffset -minEnc_M1_Cont
                    ?endOffset -minEnc_M1_Cont)
                 )
        offset = offset+(minW_Cont+minS_Cont)

        )

Thanks in advance .

Best regards,

Marben

Hi Marben,

You'll need to use something like ?sep offset rather than ?sep 0.5 . You already have most of the work done - a loop to build the subRectList based on the number of rows of contacts. I doubt it will make any significant difference in this case unless you have a very large number for contNum, but you should consider using cons() to add each list onto the beginning of subRectList rather than append1 to add it on the end (this is more efficient).

Regards,

Andrew.

Hi Andrew,

Thank you very much for your reply.

Your suggestion "?sep" works like a charm .

I am searching for the solution of my problem for many days without luck . 

Finaly, I got my skill code working according to my plan .

Here is now my new skill code :

        contNum = fix((pathWidth-(2*minEnc_M1_Cont)+minS_Cont)/(minW_Cont+minS_Cont))
        offset = minus((minW_Cont+minS_Cont)*(contNum-1))/2.0

       offset = offset + 3.41
        subRectList = list()
        for(i 0 contNum-1
        subRectList = append1(subRectList
            list(?layer list("CONT" "drawing")
                    ?width minW_Cont
                    ?length minW_Cont
                    ?space minS_Cont
                    ?gap "minimum"
                    ?sep offset
                    ?beginOffset -minEnc_M1_Cont
                    ?endOffset -minEnc_M1_Cont)
                 )
        offset = offset+(minW_Cont+minS_Cont)

        )

Merry christmas and advance happy new year to all .

Best regards,

Marben