Asking SKILL Code for Virtouso

My first reaction is why don't you do this without skill in Virtuoso? Just select the
things, type m to move, click the swap button from the form, and click the right
mouse button to place them flipped.
If you want to do this with skill, you not only need to swap each instance but also
calculate a new origin for each instance.

Greetings, William.


I have an example how to rotate instances here. It is not difficult to modify this for
flipping only. However, only the orientation is modified, not the origin.

procedure( wrRotateInst( )

  let( ( wrOrient)

    foreach( instancepointer geGetSelectedSet( )
      unless( null( instancepointer->orient)
    wrOrient = instancepointer->orient
    case( wrOrient
      ( "R0"
        wrOrient = "R90"
      )
      ( "R90"
        wrOrient = "R180"
      )
      ( "R180"
        wrOrient = "R270"
      )
      ( "R270"
        wrOrient = "R0"
      )
      ( "MY"
        wrOrient = "MYR90"
      )
      ( "MYR90"
        wrOrient = "MX"
      )
      ( "MX"
        wrOrient = "MXR90"
      )
      ( "MXR90"
        wrOrient = "MY"
      )
    ) ;; case
    instancepointer->orient = wrOrient
      ) ;; unless
    ) ;; foreach
  ) ;; let
)

Relyveld and William,

The "Virtuoso SKILL forum" is known here by the "Custom IC Skill" .

I will now move this thread to that forum.

Administrator

Attached is some SKILL code for providing a convenient function for doing in-place
flipping and rotation. See the comments in the code for more details on using it.

Regards,

Andrew.

Apologies for the previous code I posted - it was missing some auxilliary functions defined in another file. This time I've attached the combined code (renamed slightly to follow the normal conventions for customer code - having an uppercase prefix) - which includes all the auxilliary functions.

Regards,

Andrew.

Thanks adbeckett.  This looks really useful.  However, being the newb that I am to SKILL....how do I use this file with Virtuoso?  I'm guessing that I might add a load statement to my .cdsinit file to load the whole file at startup.  But then how do I make work?  Do you use this with bindkeys, or does this somehow work dynamically with the right mouse button after the 'move' bindkey is hit?

I'd appreciate any help you could give on this since I can see myself using this a lot.

You would add a line to your .cdsinit file:

load("/path/to/CCSflip.il")

and then define a bindkey (for example):

hiSetBindKey("Layout" "n" "CCSflip(?orient "MY" ?relativeTo 'upperRight ?mode 'copy)")

with whichever bindkey you want, and variant of the function you want (see the comments at the top for examples) in the final argument string.

Regards,

Andrew.

 Can the administrator find the proper line to CCSflip.il

Thanks

Vaughn 

I think the attachment links got messed up in the transfer from cdnusers.org to the new Community Forums.

Anyway, please find attached the latest version of CCSflip.il

Regards,

Andrew.

 Andrew,

The past to the attatchment does not exist.

https://www.cadence.com/Community/CSSharedFiles/forums/storage/48/24228/CCSflip.il

Or I just can not view it. ... Yes I am logged in. ;) 

Looks like a fault with the community forums. I've logged an IT ticket to get this fixed.

In the meantime, if you can log onto support.cadence.com you should be able to find CCSflip.il - just search for CCSflip or solution number 11024872

Regards,

Andrew.