Script Skill : drawing a path or rectangle in layout's View

Hi Mohammed,

Your description/requirements are a bit vague.  You can open a cellview non-graphically using the dbOpenCellViewByType() function and then you can create a rectangle using dbCreateRect() or a path using dbCreatePath() or a path seg using dbCreatePathSeg().  The cellview (layout) can then be saved to disk using dbSave().

I recommend that you look at the documentation for each of these functions, but here's a really simple example:

let( (cv)
  ;; the variable 'cv' is local to this let statement, i.e. this code does not create or use a global variable 'cv'
  cv = dbOpenCellViewByType("mylib" "mycell" "layout" "maskLayout" "a") ;; opens for edit, or creates layout
  dbCreatePath(cv list("M1" "drawing") list(0:0 1:0) 0.2)
  dbCreatePathSeg(cv list("M1" "drawing") 0:0 1:0 0.2 "truncate" "truncate")
  dbCreateRect(cv list("M1" "drawing") list(0:0 1:1))
  dbSave(cv)
); let

Hopefully this can help you to get started? You could create a procedure that accepts arguments for the layer used, the points required etc. Make your code structured and re-usable by not relying on global variables and grouping commonly used or repeatedly used code sections into procedures - again look at the documentation for help on this.

Best regards,

Lawrence.