skill code to place all symbol cells in a virtuoso lib to top level schematic cell

You didn't give any indication of what went wrong or what errors were given. Three things that I can spot:

1. The nil on the first line would probably be better being "schematic" so that it knows what viewType to create the view as if there is no existing "schematic" view.
2. You've got an erroneous space after the foreach and before the parenthesis that follows it. If you use the C-style for SKILL, you must not put spaces between the function name and the parenthesis after it.
3. All your instances will be on top of each other because you've set the xy location to list(0 0)

With the code as (my library name):

cv=dbOpenCellViewByType("opamp090" "testforum" "schematic" "schematic" "a")
lib=ddGetObj("opamp090")
foreach(cell lib~>cells
  when(ddGetObj(lib~>name cell~>name "symbol")
    cv1=dbOpenCellViewByType(lib~>name cell~>name "symbol")
    when(cv1
      schinst=dbCreateInst(cv cv1 nil list(0 0) "R0" 1)
    )
  )
)

The code worked (albeit with the instances on top of each other). You could compute the coordinate yourself (if you have some idea of the size of the symbols - although you could find that out using the bBox of the symbols too). My code has an additional when to make sure it doesn't fail if the symbol couldn't be opened for some reason.

Regards,

Andrew

Hi Andrew 

thanks for your code. I was trying to submit the code as the org thread but I can't find org thread. 

I will try to modify it so I can array them instead of put them on the top of each other 

I will keep you posted 

thanks 

Nhumai 

Hi Andrew 

I got it now below is my code 

cv=dbOpenCellViewByType("sc33tps_v1" "all_cells" "schematic" "schematic" "a")

lib=ddGetObj("sc33tps_v1")

x = 0.0

y = 0.0

foreach(cell lib~>cells

  when(ddGetObj(lib~>name cell~>name "symbol")

    cv1=dbOpenCellViewByType(lib~>name cell~>name "symbol")

    when(cv1

      schinst=dbCreateInst(cv cv1 nil list(x y) "R0" 1)

      if( (x == 27.0) then x = 0.0 y = y + 3.0 else x = x + 3.0 )

    )

  )

)

Thanks for your help 

Nhumai 

Hi Andrew, 

Now I would like to enhance the script to put the cells in alphabetical order do you have any suggestion for me ? your suggestion is very appreciated it 

thanks 

Nhumai 

cv=dbOpenCellViewByType("sc33tps_v1" "all_cells" "schematic" "schematic" "a")

lib=ddGetObj("sc33tps_v1")

x = 0.0

y = 0.0

foreach(cell sort(lib~>cells lambda((x y) alphalessp(x~>name y~>name)))

  when(ddGetObj(lib~>name cell~>name "symbol")

    cv1=dbOpenCellViewByType(lib~>name cell~>name "symbol")

    when(cv1

      schinst=dbCreateInst(cv cv1 nil list(x y) "R0" 1)

      if( (x == 27.0) then x = 0.0 y = y + 3.0 else x = x + 3.0 )

    )

  )

)

Should do the trick I think.

it works :-) 

but it put the cells in reverted order but that is good enough for me 

thanks all for help 

Nhumai 

Hi Nhumai,

sorry about that, you can switch the order of the x and y in the call to alphalessp -> alphalessp(y~>name x~>name)

Best regards,

Lawrence.

Hi Andrew

If i need to use only a particular type of cells (say 'inv') what do i add for it?

Assuming you're asking me to update Lawrence's code in this part of the thread and by "type of cells" you mean those that begin with a certain string, then you could replace:

  when(ddGetObj(lib~>name cell~>name "symbol")

with

  when(ddGetObj(lib~>name cell~>name "symbol") && pcreMatchp("^inv" cell~>name)

The first argument to pcreMatchp would be the regular expression you want - in this case this means anything beginning with inv.

Not really sure why you asked me... I corrected the original code but then pointed out what was wrong with it, and then Lawrence fixed it properly.

Andrew.

Thanks Andrew! I could do the same using following code

foreach(cell lib~>cells
   when(pcreExecute(pattern cell~>name)
      cv1=dbOpenCellViewByType(lib~>name cell~>name "symbol")
      when(cv1
         schinst=dbCreateInst(cv cv1 nil list(0 0) "R0" 1)
      )
   )

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