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Turning enclosed lines into a shape?

EvanShultz

 Is there an existing way (I will assume using SKILL) to turn an area enclosed by lines into a shape on any given layer? In my specific application, I am bringing in a DXF drawing and I'd like to take the areas in the DXF file and make them shapes.

  • Hi Evan,

    The Compose Shape menu command (in the shape menu) does this well in most cases such as a DXF import.

    I have Skill routines for doing this also - for more general requirements. Let me know if you go down the Skill path.

     Cheers, Dave

  •  Hi all,

     

    If you do go the SKILL path (haha what a pun!)  here's some things to watch out for:

    -- segments whose endpoint is close but not-quite-exactly-matching the startpoint of the next segment. You'll need a "close-enough bullseye" function to help find the next segment

    --line segments drawn "head -to- head" or "tail-to-tail". You'll need to  swap these end-to-end so that the endpont of each segment matches the startpoint of the next segment for when you build up your rpath from the list of segments

    -- "overlaid" segments, where a designer has laid down a segment then laid down another segment on top of it, making it invisible to the human eye. And you'll have to be able to handle major and minor arc segments too

     

    HTH and Good Luck,

     

    Chris Walters

    local Cadence guru

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  •  Hi Dave,

    I'd like to do the same thing with IDF imports from Pro/E, which don't come in as shapes. Compose Shape is exactly the functionality I was looking for, but I want to avoid manual user interaction and compose the shape in SKILL.

     I am able to do it if the objType is polygon by using axlDB2Path and then axlDBCreateShape. But if the objType is path, I'm stuck.

    Would you mind sharing your SKILL routines? Rather than me trying to reinvent the wheel...

  • Do u have the skill routine to change from clines or lines to shape?

     

     

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