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Find the overlapping shapes between three layers

Anmoljot
Anmoljot over 1 year ago

Hello,

We have a requirement as shared below:

  • Finding the overlapping shapes between multiple layers
  • Updating an existing layer by adding the shapes found in the previous step.

Kindly refer to the below image for the further description of requirement shared below:

Figures 1, 2 and 3 show the shapes for Layer A, B and C respectively and the Outline layer shape.

The requirement is to do an equivalent of "AND" operation to get just the shapes that overlap between the three layers.

The second part is to add these shapes to the OUTLINE layer as shown in the figure 4.

The smaller shapes in the middle region of fig. 1, 2 and 3 are not overlapping and hence not appearing in the output figure 4.

Please help to provide Skill commands which can meet the requirement.

Kindly let me know if any further details are required.

Thanks,

Anmol

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  • Anmoljot
    Anmoljot over 1 year ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Hello Andrew, 

    This is what the data looks like with fill:

    Thanks

    Anmol

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 1 year ago in reply to Anmoljot

    OK, so presumably there are small gaps between the regions you've drawn (otherwise it would have merged into a single polygon - feasible because the vertex count is not too high). I presume that there are also small gaps in the original (non-tiled) output of the abeLayer results too - and it's not clear why you think it should be able to end up with the result above (again, I can't see the detail from the pictures).

    Andrew

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