Require skill script/function for silk screen coordiantes

Hello,

Dave, Thanks for your reply.

Your method worked for getting the silkscreen coordinates for components.

Now, I was trying to get coordinates for "BOARD GEOMETRY/SILKSCREEN_TOP".

I tried using "axlLayerGet(layerName)" and it gave me param dbid of layer.

However, I was not able to extract any co-ordinate or shape related properties from it.

I also tried, getting shapes on "BOARD GEOMETRY/SILKSCREEN_TOP" layer

using:

shapeList = axlDBGetShapes("PACKAGE GEOMETRY/SILKSCREEN_TOP");

It is returning  null list.

Does anybody have worked on this previously and have any idea how to get this information?

Thanks.

1/ Layers don't have any shape-related properties.

2/ axlDBGetShapes will only return shapes. Chances are that you don't have any shapes on that layer - just lines and text.

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.