Rotate instance by 45 degree

Will,

There's no direct way, but there's a possible workaround. First of all, is this in a schematic or layout? Is the thing you want to rotate a fixed layout, or a PCell (e.g. a transistor layout - I'd be surprised if it's a transistor). Does the object you wish to rotate by other angles contain a lot of shapes?

Andrew.

Hi Andrew,

Yes, the PCell is a layout PAD which contains 4 layers of shapes.

Would it be possible to rotate it by 45 degree?

Thank you very much !!

Will

Hi Andrew,

Yes, the PCell is a layout PAD which contains 4 layers of shapes.

Would it be possible to rotate it by 45 degree?

Thank you very much !!

Will

Will,

I'm not sure your PAD cell is really a PCell (is it parameterised such that the layout changes as you change the parameters?), but even so this will work with PCells as well as fixed layouts. Do:

cv=dbOpenCellViewByType("yourLib" "PAD" "layout")  ; or whatever the lib/cell/view is called
dbCreateXformPCell(cv "yourLib")  ; if "yourLib" is not writable, you can write into a different library

If the component does not have CDF already, you can place an instance of yourLib/PAD/layout_xform (note the new viewName gets created) and you can specify the angle parameter on the instance to be whatever you want (e.g. 45). If the component does have CDF, you can either edit the CDF to add a new float parameter angle, or place an instance of the layout_xform view and then edit properties and add a user-defined property (on the properties tab in the edit properties form) called angle, type float, value 45.

Andrew