Info on abeLayerFromNet and abeLayerFromShapes function

Paul,

From a quick experiment, it follows the net through the hierarchy - assuming of course the net is connected to the instTerms of the instances and there are nets within those instances which are connected to the terminals. So it doesn't extract - it uses the connectivity information already in the database.

Regards,

Andrew.

Is there a way to add a property to the abeLayerToCellView shapes generated or can I put the shapes to a scratch cell?

Paul

Paul,

If you look at the documentation for abeLayerToCellView you'll see that you can specify the output cellView (in more than one way) and that the function returns a list of shapes that are created (so you can put a property on them easily, or store them in a group).

I just noticed I didn't answer the original question about abeLayerFromShapes. I think the answer is no - it just creates the abeLayer object from the coordinates of the shapes passed in. You can however create layers from hierarchical shapes by using abeLayerFromCellView which allows the number of levels of hierarchy to be specified.

Andrew.

I am getting an error when I try to put a property on the shapes

abeLayerToCellView(layAndNot "M1" ?purpose "cfill")

tileIter = abeTileIterator(layAndNot)
while(tile = tileIter~>next
;geSelectObject(tile)
dbCreateProp(tile "viaProg" "boolean" t))

CIW 

*Error* dbCreateProp: Invalid database object - geoTile:236a7030

Paul

I am getting an error when I try to put a property on the shapes

abeLayerToCellView(layAndNot "M1" ?purpose "cfill")

tileIter = abeTileIterator(layAndNot)
while(tile = tileIter~>next
;geSelectObject(tile)
dbCreateProp(tile "viaProg" "boolean" t))

CIW 

*Error* dbCreateProp: Invalid database object - geoTile:236a7030

Paul

That wasn't what you asked earlier. You can put properties on the result of abeLayerToCellView because these are shapes in the database. You can't put properties on the "abe" objects themselves because these are virtual objects that only exist in memory and aren't db objects. There's not really any benefit in being able to put properties on these. The error message is pretty clear - you're trying to add a property on a geoTile object which isn't a database object.

Andrew.