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SKILL code to change all the existing Metal layers to its corresponding fillBlock layer

ssram

I'm a very beginner to the SKILL scripting, so just looking out for help to write a SKILL code to change all the existing Metal layers to its corresponding fillBlock layer in my layout.

As a start i wrote a few lines to check if the selected metal is "m2" in my layout

and to print "Layer name is m2" if it is

& if it is not, and print "Layer name is NOT m2"

The code is below, but its not doing what i intend it to, please help me fix it:

procedure(MetalToFillBlock()
let((m2)
if(geGetSelSet()~>layerName == m2
then
printf("Layer name is m2")
else
printf("Layer name is NOT m2"))
);let
);procedure

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  • skillUser

    There are a couple of issues with the code, the first is that variable 'm2' will be nil, but perhaps more importantly, geGetSelSet() returns a list, and so the result might be 'nil' or '("M2") or '("M2" "M2")' and so on.

    Perhaps something like 'forall' would be useful here?

    procedure(MetalToFillBlock()
      let((m2)
        m2 = "M2"
        if(forall(object geGetSelSet() object~>layerName == m2)  then
          printf("Layer name is %L for all selected objects\n" m2)
        else
          printf("Layer name is NOT %L for all selected objects\n" m2)
        ); if
      );let
    );procedure

    Hopefully this will help a little?

    Regards,

    Lawrence.

  • ssram
    in reply to skillUser

    Thank you so much Lawrence, i think this is something closer to what i was looking for.

    Ultimately i was trying to find all the M2 in a selected set of groups and do certain operation. Basically, i need to change every M2 drawing to M1,M2&M3 fillBlock

    I was going to hard code this in the script. Do you have any idea how i could possibly do that?

    To tell you the whole idea, i need to convert all the existing "M2 drawing" to "M2-1 fillBlock", "M2 fillBlock" & "M2+1 fillBlock" so that i could have "M1 fillBlock", "M2 fillBlock" & "M3 fillBlock" wherever there was "M2 drawing"

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  • ssram
    in reply to skillUser

    Thank you so much Lawrence, i think this is something closer to what i was looking for.

    Ultimately i was trying to find all the M2 in a selected set of groups and do certain operation. Basically, i need to change every M2 drawing to M1,M2&M3 fillBlock

    I was going to hard code this in the script. Do you have any idea how i could possibly do that?

    To tell you the whole idea, i need to convert all the existing "M2 drawing" to "M2-1 fillBlock", "M2 fillBlock" & "M2+1 fillBlock" so that i could have "M1 fillBlock", "M2 fillBlock" & "M3 fillBlock" wherever there was "M2 drawing"

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  • ssram
    in reply to ssram

    So, is there a way i could check the list for m2 (because the selected list could have other layers as well) and whenever there is an m2 found, change its layer purpose to fillBlock and add m2-1 as well as m2+1 fillBlock ?

    Or, is there a way i could do these changes for all selected m2 in the list using a "forall" / "foreach" operation?

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