Device spacing in modgen using SKILL

For each of the member lists you pass to ciConCreate, there are a set of properties you can provide - you see these in the documentation examples as things like "row", "column", "abutment". You can also specify:

("horiCustomSpacing" 1.5)
("vertCustomSpacing" 3.0)

There is one brief mention of horiCustomSpacing in an example in the docs, but otherwise the easiest way to find this out is to create the modgen using the UI and then use ciConFind and inspect the members (not that there is an additional field when inspecting it which shows the type - that's omitted when calling ciConCreate().

Probably would be worth contacting customer support to get this better documented.

Regards,

Andrew.

Thank you very much, Andrew.

I tried the following to specify the spacing.

memberList = list(list("M48.1" 'inst list(list("horiCustomSpacing" 1.2) list("vertCustomSpacing" 1.2))) list("M48.2" 'inst list(list("horiCustomSpacing" 1.2) list("vertCustomSpacing" 1.2))))

constr_id = ciConCreate(cache_id 'modgen ?members memberList ?params list( list( "numRows" 1 ) list( "numCols" 1 )))

It is creating the modgen which is no different from the one that is created when the spacing parameters are not given. constr_id~>members shows the numbers that were set, though:

(("M48.1" inst

(("bodyContacts" enumset nil)

("bodyContactType" string "")

("bodyContactSep" float 0.0)

("bodyContactRefLayer" int 0)

("bodyContactNetToUse" int -1)

("dummyNetToUse" int -1)

("dummyParamSource" enum "neighbor")

("horiCustomSpacing" float 1.2)

("hCustomSpacingRefLayer" int -1)

("hCustomSpacingRefPurpose" int -1)

("vertCustomSpacing" float 1.2)

("vCustomSpacingRefLayer" int -1)

("vCustomSpacingRefPurpose" int -1)

("dummyParams" string "")

("row" int 0)

("col" int 0)

("abutment" int 0)

("abutType" int -1)

("orient" enum "R0")

("vertAlignment" enum "top")

("horiAlignment" enum "left")

)

)

("M48.2" inst

(("bodyContacts" enumset nil)

("bodyContactType" string "")

("bodyContactSep" float 0.0)

("bodyContactRefLayer" int 0)

("bodyContactNetToUse" int -1)

("dummyNetToUse" int -1)

("dummyParamSource" enum "neighbor")

("horiCustomSpacing" float 1.2)

("hCustomSpacingRefLayer" int -1)

("hCustomSpacingRefPurpose" int -1)

("vertCustomSpacing" float 1.2)

("vCustomSpacingRefLayer" int -1)

("vCustomSpacingRefPurpose" int -1)

("dummyParams" string "")

("row" int 0)

("col" int 1)

("abutment" int 0)

("abutType" int -1)

("orient" enum "R0")

("vertAlignment" enum "top")

("horiAlignment" enum "left")

)

)

)

Got it! I need to change  "vertAlignment"  and  "horiAlignment" to "custom" to make it work. Thank you very much, Andrew.

Sorry - forgot to include those in the list. They were in my example too, but I didn't notice ;-)

Glad you got it working.

Andrew.