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How to copy an unfilled shape's border into a line draw?

With 17.2's creation of an unfilled shape on Board Geometry/Design_Outline subclass when loading a .emn file we have lost the line draw that was being created with the older versions of Allegro. I was copies of that line draw to represent the board's outline for various other purposes, eg. solder mask, paste mask, nc route path.

Is there a way to generate from the border of an unfilled shape a continuous line draw? The line draw could end up on any other subclass, I have no preference.

eDave over 8 years ago

Use Shape/Decompose Shape
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lbriski over 8 years ago

Hi,

I've done that and the result I got was individual line segments which doesn't get me complete line draw. Or did I not do something correctly?
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eDave over 8 years ago

Unless someone knows an alternative method.... It's easy to achieve in Skill if you are interested in going down that path?
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lbriski over 8 years ago

I also was thinking that a Skill routine would handle this. Probably would be a good exercise for me as I haven't written any Skill code in a long, long time.
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eDave over 8 years ago

This might help:

rpath = axlDB2Path(outlineObj_db)
axlDBCreatePath(rpath, newLayer)
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