How to handle FigGroups like mosaics in Layout or how to convert a figGroup to mosaic ?

Mosaics are arrays of instances of cellViews; they have to have hierarchy. figGroups are a grouping within the same cellView. You'd have to convert the figGroup into a new cellView and then instantiate as an array/mosaic to be able to do this. You could use Make Cell to make the new cell, and then you can convert the resulting instance into a mosaic.

It doesn't really need a script to do this, since you'd just use:

1. Select the figGroup and use Edit->Hierarchy->Make Cell to specify the cell name to create (it will by default create an instance of the new cell)
2. Select the new instance and Edit->Convert->To Mosaic (or Right Mouse->Convert to Mosaic)

Andrew

Thank you Andrew,

I see this is the only one workaround to deal with figGroups the way I want it.

I thought Skill is such a powerful language that maybe it also possible with the help of Skill to emulate this behavior for figGroups.

But I am a novice in Skill and cannot do this.

Regards

The issue here is not the power of SKILL; the issue is that there's no concept in the database for mosaics of figGroups. Unless it can be represented in the database, SKILL is not going to help you. You either have to convert it to a cell and then replace with a mosaic of instances (as I suggested above) or do an arrayed copy (which is then not a mosaic; it's a one-off copy which you can't then alter the array size/spacing). Both could be automated with SKILL, but I'm not convinced that writing SKILL code to do something you can do with two simple menu steps is worth the effort.

Regards,

Andrew

Hello Andrew,

I think there is a small misunderstanding. Maybe I used some wrong concepts for you.

I don’t want to replace figGroups by mosaics.

My plan was to fill an area by some figGroups. I don’t want to clutter the library with too many cells.

The area is a rectangular polygon and to fill it manually takes too long time.

I thought now it were nice to have an arrays of figGroups that behaves like mosaics : in partial editing modus I can stretch with the mouse the array to fill the area with figGroups or if there are too many of them I can cut them with the mouse.

I heard that is possible to “intercept” the editing command depending on what instance/shape etc the user want to edit and to enhance it with new functionality. This was my idea how this could be implemented.

I hope this time you get a better idea of what I want to do.

Regards,

Hi Andrew,

Can we convert figgroup into hierarchy using skill coding?.

I need to convert some test case into hierarchy in same layout editor.

Thanks in advance 

Apoorvarevankar said:

Can we convert figgroup into hierarchy using skill coding?.

Use leMakeCell()?