How to get rectilinear core coordinates

Hi Bob,

Thank you very much for your quick response and sorry I did not reply back sooner. This forum thread has been very helpful to provide a means for setting a rectilinear shape on a partition module in our design.

Your response to my bump to the thread showing the use of dbShape and the subtle error you got with setObjFplanBoxList and the related use of join gave me exactly what I needed to try and it worked.

One side comment. So in your response you used setObjFplanBoxList rather than the setObjFplanPolygon I had showed in my post but I did not catch this detail despite you mentioning that you chose *BoxList since "can accept a list of rectangles". I typed in your example cmds in my real design understanding them individually and then the final one, etc. and it all worked. But then I went to my TCL code where I had my previous *Polygon and did not change that but instead just passed everything else after that; I didn't really notice you had used a different function and of course it did not work. I quickly noticed the difference and now have it working in our TCL code.

It makes me wonder if there are any good useful primers on the differences in how polygons or lists or lists of list can be used in FE TCL in difference cases, I suppose with a focus on physical shapes and coordinates and if not it might be a potential blog post idea. Even the subtle join thing I still have not fully tried to appreciate.

One other observation is that this post thread just like others often originates back in time from earlier versions of EDI and as I look at other useful blog/forum posts on use of dbGet, etc. sometimes will see "this proc had an issue with this aspect and we are planning improvements in upcoming release. Maybe some of those posts will get bumped in a similar way in case the newer EDI versions have been enhanced to do things better than before.

Thanks again everyone for this thread and your suggestions!

Regards,

Tom

Hi Bob,

Thank you very much for your quick response and sorry I did not reply back sooner. This forum thread has been very helpful to provide a means for setting a rectilinear shape on a partition module in our design.

Your response to my bump to the thread showing the use of dbShape and the subtle error you got with setObjFplanBoxList and the related use of join gave me exactly what I needed to try and it worked.

One side comment. So in your response you used setObjFplanBoxList rather than the setObjFplanPolygon I had showed in my post but I did not catch this detail despite you mentioning that you chose *BoxList since "can accept a list of rectangles". I typed in your example cmds in my real design understanding them individually and then the final one, etc. and it all worked. But then I went to my TCL code where I had my previous *Polygon and did not change that but instead just passed everything else after that; I didn't really notice you had used a different function and of course it did not work. I quickly noticed the difference and now have it working in our TCL code.

It makes me wonder if there are any good useful primers on the differences in how polygons or lists or lists of list can be used in FE TCL in difference cases, I suppose with a focus on physical shapes and coordinates and if not it might be a potential blog post idea. Even the subtle join thing I still have not fully tried to appreciate.

One other observation is that this post thread just like others often originates back in time from earlier versions of EDI and as I look at other useful blog/forum posts on use of dbGet, etc. sometimes will see "this proc had an issue with this aspect and we are planning improvements in upcoming release. Maybe some of those posts will get bumped in a similar way in case the newer EDI versions have been enhanced to do things better than before.

Thanks again everyone for this thread and your suggestions!

Regards,

Tom