Macros/Scripting

Many features are already build in the LayoutEditor. Further features can be added by macros/scripting. Applications of macros are often similar. Having a big archive of template will help to understand the macro language faster and accelerates the development of new own macros. Here is a resource for it. Feel free to use, extend and modify it. If you have created new macros, please contribute it to this archive. Thank you! Any macro listed here is also shipped within any LayoutEditor package in the subfolder macros/examples. This folder also contains further examples as well as a lot of examples for LayoutScript.

Popular Macros

• Introducing examples

• Labeling of Arrays

• DRC Example

• Import External DRC Results

General Layout Editing

• cut long cell names

• remove negative spacing in arrays

• remove non orthogonal arrays

• datatype processing

• remove a certain text

• select all paths with a given width

• breaking a design into tiles

• extracting more than one layer

• automatic screenshot

• generating an overview cell

• generating a new cell with all used layer side by side

• set datatype for all shapes touching a shape on a specified layer

Generating Shapes

• filling a wafer with cell references

• alternative way to generate text

• circle array with different parameters

• donut array with different parameters

• generating a random array of boxes

• generating a random array of circles

• reading circle coordinates from a text file

• multi turn spirale

• converting a box to a finger structure

• expand horizontal shapes

• creating a non orthogonal cell array

• paths/polygons with a y=f(x) shape

• adding circles around selected shapes

Setup Macros

• changing shortcuts

• layer setup

• layer import/export in CSV format

• save and restore the toolbar state

• using local characters in macros

Schematic Macros

• creating a schematic by a macro

Optical Macros

• Fresnel Zone Plate Lens

Other Macros

• boundung box area calculation

• log file on macro progress

• display macro status

• using debugging features

• DXF Load with correct Units

• DWG reader

• inductivity extraction with InductEx

List of all Macros

See also

• Macros

• LayoutScript

• API Documentation

• CategoryDesign

• CategoryLibrary

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