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How to measure minimum shape width?

luanvn81
luanvn81 over 10 years ago

Hi All!

  I want to measure "shape width" at narrow locations as below image using Skill but I don't know how to do it? Please give me some suggestion.

Tks.

Luan.

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  • SadiqAlZaman
    SadiqAlZaman over 9 years ago
    Hi, have you solved this problem? can you help me out
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  • luanvn81
    luanvn81 over 9 years ago

    Hi Sadiq Zaman!

      I'm so sorry but up to now I can't find  out the best way to solve that. Hope the expert in this forum can help us. Whenever I have solved, I will post code in here.

    Luan.

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  • eDave
    eDave over 9 years ago
    It is relatively simple using intersection maths because shapes and their voids have easily obtainable boundaries that consist of straight line and circular arc segments only:
    1/ Find the segments of the shape
    2/ Intersect them with your pre-defined line
    3/ Calculate the intersections and add up the distances.
    4/ Find the segments of the voids
    5/ Intersect them with your pre-defined line
    6/ Subtract the distances from your total
    None of these steps is difficult.
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  • SadiqAlZaman
    SadiqAlZaman over 9 years ago

    hi Dave

    Thank you for your reply

    I am doing it the same way , by mathematical calculation , but is there a better way to calculated this copper web (copper flow areas )? because if i have void of different sizes , then it is quite time consuming on a large project.

    Is there a tool or skill code or script which can be use for this? Or even any sort of report that i can get from allegro which can provide me this copper web details in my project (.brd)

    Regards,

    Sadiq Al Zaman

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  • Jared110700
    Jared110700 over 4 years ago

    Hi Luan,

     And now, Have you solved this problem yet?

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