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Require skill script/function for silk screen coordiantes

KetCadence

 Hello,

 

I am trying to find skill function or develop a skill script that would provide me co-ordinates

of silk screen of a component. I was not able to find such function.

Could anyone please help me with this?

 

Thanks.

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  • KetCadence

    Hello Dave,

    As you suggested, there are no shape properties involved with "BOARD GEOMETRY/ SILKSCREN_TOP".

    I guess there should be some lines, clines associated with it.

    So, I was trying to get hold of those line objects in order to get required extents of silkscreen.

    I came acorss an utility developed by you called autoSilkUtils_public.il

    One of the change log in header information suggests:

    "8.20    26-Aug-09 DE    Also select associated objects that do not have a parent - such as board geometry text."

    So I was searching for the function related to above mentioned functionality.

    I found function called "findTypeObjects (types @key visibleOnly, layers, attrPairs, props, bbox, point, xy)".

    If I am correct, it is related to functionality related to above change log.

    I tried to use it as follows:

    objs = findTypeObjects("LINES", ?layers "BOARD GEOMETRY/SILKSCREEN_TOP")

    It gave me one dbid, but I am not able to identify what it is exaclty.

    I tried to print "objs->??", and it is nil.

     

    Could you please let me know, if this functionality could be used to get hold of line objects

    present in BOARD GEOMETRY/SILKSCREEN_TOP ?

    I am trying to debug this thing, but since I am new to this kind of scripting it is difficult to understand.

    Thanks.

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  • KetCadence

    Hello Dave,

    As you suggested, there are no shape properties involved with "BOARD GEOMETRY/ SILKSCREN_TOP".

    I guess there should be some lines, clines associated with it.

    So, I was trying to get hold of those line objects in order to get required extents of silkscreen.

    I came acorss an utility developed by you called autoSilkUtils_public.il

    One of the change log in header information suggests:

    "8.20    26-Aug-09 DE    Also select associated objects that do not have a parent - such as board geometry text."

    So I was searching for the function related to above mentioned functionality.

    I found function called "findTypeObjects (types @key visibleOnly, layers, attrPairs, props, bbox, point, xy)".

    If I am correct, it is related to functionality related to above change log.

    I tried to use it as follows:

    objs = findTypeObjects("LINES", ?layers "BOARD GEOMETRY/SILKSCREEN_TOP")

    It gave me one dbid, but I am not able to identify what it is exaclty.

    I tried to print "objs->??", and it is nil.

     

    Could you please let me know, if this functionality could be used to get hold of line objects

    present in BOARD GEOMETRY/SILKSCREEN_TOP ?

    I am trying to debug this thing, but since I am new to this kind of scripting it is difficult to understand.

    Thanks.

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