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How to get the symbol owner of an arc or line or other figures?

When I select a figure in PCB editor using SKILL, I often want to know whether the selected arc/line, etc, belongs to a symbol. Is there an reliable way to get its symbol owner's dbid?

Thanks,

Jun Gong

Pawandeep over 11 years ago

You can use attrib objType to determine this
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JGONG over 11 years ago

Thanks for your answr. But the objType method is for identity of the obj's type, it doesn't provide the owner's information. I think "->parent" sometimes works, but not always give correct information.
Any other idea?
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eDave over 11 years ago

->parent should work for lines. However, if you choose line segments the owner may be a shape. Be careful with your filters.
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