How do I rename a net which does not have net attributes

It's unclear what you are doing. If netId is a net object, it wouldn't have a net attribute, so doing netId~>net would be looking for a user-defined property called net, and if not present it would return nil.

What does netId~>objType show?

Andrew

You can use dbSetName on the net object itself, even if it has no existing name, to assign a new name.

LE202511197417 said:

You can use dbSetName on the net object itself, even if it has no existing name, to assign a new name.

No you can't. There's no such function as dbSetName and there's no such thing as a net object without a name.

geGetSelectedSet()~>??
((db:0x74142d69 cellView db:0x7047971a objType "path"
prop nil bBox
((186.112 43.828)
(186.952 43.868)
) children
nil groupMembers nil isAnyInst nil
isShape t matchPoints nil net
nil parent nil pin nil
purpose "drawing" textDisplays nil assocTextDisplays
nil markers nil figGroup nil
isUnshielded nil shieldedNet1 nil shieldedNet2
nil layerName "M4" layerNum 34
lpp
("M4" "drawing") connRoutes nil routeStatus
"normal" beginExt 0.0 endExt 0.0
nPoints 2 points
((186.112 43.848)
(186.952 43.848)
) pathStyle
"truncateExtend" width 0.04
)
)

OK, so you have a figure selected (a path in this case) - the object you are looking at is not a "net".

You'd need to do:

cv=geGetEditCellView()
net=dbMakeNet(cv "myNetName") ; whatever you want it to be
; either add all of the selected shapes to the net:
foreach(fig geGetSelSet()
  dbAddFigToNet(fig net)
)
; or just the first
; dbAddFigToNet(car(geGetSelSet()) net)

Note that the reason I used dbMakeNet rather than dbCreateNet is that dbMakeNet works if the net already exists.

Andrew

Thanks Andrew, it worked

Hi Andrew, I got some problem when I was handling bus names.  Idea is to select the paths and automatically assign the netnames like sig<0> sig<1>, sig<2>, sig<3>  ..... so on,  ascending or descending order. 

cv=geGetEditCellView()
busname="sig<0>"
first_bit=atoi(nth(0 parseString(nth(1 parseString(busname "<")) ">")))
signame=nth(0 parseString(busname "<"))
count=first_bit
foreach(fig geGetSelSet()
sig_name=concat(signame "<" count ">")
net=dbMakeNet(cv sig_name)
dbAddFigToNet(fig net)

count=count+1
);foreach

Error:

Entering new debug toplevel due to error:
*Error* eval: unbound variable - sig
*Error* dbMakeNet: Invalid net name - sig\<0\>

Hi, Issue got fixed now. Let me know if any modifications are needed in the code, Thanks.

cv=geGetWindowCellView()
busname="sig<0>"
first_bit=atoi(nth(0 parseString(nth(1 parseString(busname "<")) ">")))
signame=nth(0 parseString(busname "<"))
count=first_bit
foreach(fig geGetSelSet()
sig_name=concat(signame "<" count ">")
sigName_s=sprintf(nil "%s" sig_name)
net=dbMakeNet(cv sigName_s)
fig~>route~>objects=remove(fig fig~>route~>objects)
dbAddFigToNet(fig net)
count=count+1
);foreach