About encounter DB command & its hidden option?

Hello eminem,

Welcome to the forum! Hope you find it useful.

For item 1, you could use the "setObjFPlanBoxList" command to define a polygon shape for a fence. You can see this command echoed to your .cmd file if you define an object to have more than 4 sides with the "Cut Rectilinear" widget in the GUI. Here is some sample output:

setObjFPlanBoxList Module {DTMF_INST/RESULTS_CONV_INST} 922.0200 673.6800 1151.7000 840.0000 922.0200 840.0000 1042.1400 905.5200

For additional information, type:

encounter> help setObjFPlanBoxList
or
encounter> man setObjFPlanBoxList

Regarding hidden variables- maybe you could provide some additional information on what you're trying to achieve that isn't happening by default?

Hope this helps,
Bob

1. Really thanks, BobD!!! :-) But I really found that when I want to get the module constraint (such as region, guide , fence, etc) boudary box, if the really boundary is a L shaped (or any other polygon shaped) box, I use the 'dbConstraintBox' command, I get the rectangular box, not a polygon.......sigh! Is there a command through which I can get polygons!?

2. For the hidden variables, when I use the 'ecoChangeCell' command, encounter just run 'refinePlace' everytime it finishes a 'ecoChangeCell' command ,is there a variable to control this. By which I can just run 'refinePlace' once after all 'ecoChangeCell' commands?

For 1, there's a couple of different ways to get this. First, there's a corresponding "getObjFPlanBoxList" that goes with setObjFPlanBoxList. It works like this:

encounter 34> getObjFPlanBoxList Module DTMF_INST/RESULTS_CONV_INST
942.48 598.08 1172.16 749.28 942.48 749.28 1100.88 829.92

You could also query the db similarly to how you have with "dbConstraintBox" to get a list of the boxes that make up the polygon. Here's an example of how you could do that with FE-TCL:

proc userConstraintBoxList {hinstName} {
set constraintBoxList {}
set constraint [dbHInstConstraint [dbGetHInstByName $hinstName]]
set constraintBox [dbConstraintBox $constraint]
dbForEachConstraintBox $constraint box {
set ptrBox [dbBoxPtrBox $box]
lappend constraintBoxList $ptrBox
}
if {[llength $constraintBoxList] > 0} {
return $constraintBoxList
} else {
return $constraintBox
}
}

encounter 28> userConstraintBoxList DTMF_INST/RESULTS_CONV_INST
{1884960 1498560 2201760 1659840} {1884960 1196160 2344320 1498560}

This scripted method is probably easier to do if you're writing a script because you can control the formatting of what is returned to suit your needs.

For item 2, using 6.2 you can use "setECOMode -noRefinePlace" to suppress refinePlace during eco commands. In 6.1 and earlier, you can use "setOptMode -noRPlace" to achieve same.

-Bob

Really thanks!! BObD, hope we can be friends!! My MSN is eminem198123@hotmail.com