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How to select instances/figures from a schematic opened in the background?

UmangKrSinha

Hi Skill experts,

Can someone suggest a way to select instances/figures from a schematic I opened using dbOpenCellViewByType() function?

I want my skill script to create a new schematic, use some other schematic and copy figures from there into the new one for editing.

I have searched the forum but couldn't find an answer to this specific problem.

I am a real rookie so If there is any better method to do this can you please suggest it?

Thank you

  • What exactly do you mean with 'Select' - 'select' normally refers to clicking on a figure (which is not necessarily an instance - could also be a shape or via for example) in a graphic environment and in such add it to the so called selected set. That requires your design to be opened in a schematic editor however and dbOpenCellViewByType(..) doesn't open a design editor - it just returns a cellview data object. Now with that cellview data object you can get at the instances with
    cv~>instances

    As I said there are other figures (a figure is everything you can "select" in a graphic design editor) like vias, shapes and more..everyone has their corresponding database attribute to access it
    cv~>shapes
    cv~>vias
    cv~>markers
    etc...

    To open a cellview graphically you have to you the geOpen(..) function.

  • Generally, in SKILL programming, the GUI functions are not very useful. There is usually a SKILL analog for them however. Once you have the cvID from dbOpenCellViewByType, you can cycle through the objects as mbracht has suggested and then use the proper SKILL function to operate on them. For Copying, for example, you can use dbCopyFig to copy from one cellview to the other. 

  • in reply to mbracht

    Thanks mbracht for your answer

    By "select" I meant selecting any type of figure (what clicking on a figure in a schematic view does, as you said)

    I will try using attributes to access the different figures, this is closest to what I want to do

    If this approach does not work however then I will have to resort to geOpen()

    Thanks again

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