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How to use dbLaterOr/dbLayerAnd/dbLayer... function hierarchically

bonnieatcds

I have a SKILL program to delete duplicated labels, make sure there only one label for one hierarchically connected net.

Currently I am using DIVA geomGetPurpose("M1" "drawing" 0 30) to get a annotate layer and then delete the extra labels.

Since there is a huge amount of labels, my SKILL program is running more than 4 hours.

I read solution 11237840 ( Lawrence suggested). It is a GUI base and it seems copy all layers... Is there any other way to solve me problem make the program faster?

Thanks!

Bonnie

  • Does Andrew still work here? Why there is no reply for this more than 2 days?

    Any idea?

    thanks!!

    Bonnie

  • Bonnie,

    This is a forum that is 'manned' by volunteers in their spare time.  If you need an answer perhaps sooner than the forum can provide then you should consider creating a service request with Cadence Customer Support.

    Having said this I just noticed some new functions recently (in ICADV12.2 and IC617) that start with the "abe" prefix, Advanced Boolean Engine - these still operate on flat data but they may be more efficient than the "le" or "db" equivalent.  Take a look at the documentation to find out more. e.g. "About the Advanced Boolean Engine" - you need to run the operations slightly differently but it is worth a try.

    Good luck,

    Lawrence.

  • Unknown said:

    Does Andrew still work here? Why there is no reply for this more than 2 days?

    Any idea?

    thanks!!

    Bonnie

    My generous nature is hoping that this was an attempt at humour (although it doesn't look that way). It isn't actually part of my job to respond here (nobody in Cadence asks me to do so) -and this week I've been rather tied up with doing my real job (including being away in Europe for a couple of days, plus travel time, visiting a customer, also preparing for a talk at a professional body, giving that talk, helping colleagues out with technical issues, doing actions from my visit, getting ready for our upcoming Technology on Tour series, working on customer's issues coming in through the support.cadence.com route, and briefly seeing my family).
    Lawrence had it right - if you want something urgently, you should go to customer support (especially as you are from a customer on a maintenance contract).
    I had been holding off advertising the new "Advanced Boolean Engine" functions in this forum because they are slightly in a state of flux. The precise argument syntax is being changed (some of they keyword arguments are a little non-standard in the way they work), but provided you don't use the keyword arguments or are prepared for them changing, then you're OK to use them in IC617. I expect they will have settled down by IC617 ISR5. The performance is very good, they handle retrieval of hierarchical shapes, can generate shapes in a transient representation (don't have to be written to OA), support multi-threading for performance, and can directly output to the database or to highlight sets if that's what you prefer.
    So caveat emptor applies a little at this stage - but by all means use them.
    Regards,
    Andrew.

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