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How to find dbid of all component inside a circle?

solene D 
Hello, 
I am new to skill and I need help please.

I created a circle using axlPathStartCircle.
And now I would like to find the dbid of all component inside this circle (even components that are not entirely in it).
But I can't find a function that allows me to do this.

Can anyone help me please? 
Thank's

PS: something else strange but unrelated: for circles, when I search for their bBox with axlGeoGetBBox, I get the center and a point on the edge of the circle. Is this normal?


  • DavidJHutchins

    eDave suggested a solution for this 8 years ago, search for 'Circle area selection?'

  • B Bruekers

    If you are using 17.2.050 or newer then there is a select by polygon function.

    Something like this:
    axlSetFindFilter(?enabled '("noall" "shapes") ?onButtons '("shapes"))
    when(axlSelect(?prompt "select shape")
        sel = car(axlGetSelSet())
        poly = car(axlPolyFromDB(sel))
        axlClearSelSet()

        axlSetFindFilter(?enabled '("noall" "pins" "vias") ?onButtons '("pins" "vias"))
        axlAddSelectPoly(poly t)  ;t = include voids
        l_sel = axlGetSelSet()
        axlClearSelSet()

        pprintln(l_sel~>objType)
        axlHighlightObject(l_sel t)
    )

    If you change the first find filter to lines/line segs then you should be able to select the circle and get all pins and vias (other find filter) inside this circle. 

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