Skill question - resizing shapes

[Jay]

Hi
I am a beginner at SKILL. I have a set of mixed shapes on a layout
(rect,ellipse, polygons) which I want to resize on the fly. Is there
an easy way to do it by calling one Skill function or do I have to
specifically traverse over shapes, see what type it is and then
increase attributes like width etc.
Thanks
Jay

 

[S. Badel]

Hi
I am a beginner at SKILL. I have a set of mixed shapes on a layout
(rect,ellipse, polygons) which I want to resize on the fly. Is there
an easy way to do it by calling one Skill function or do I have to
specifically traverse over shapes, see what type it is and then
increase attributes like width etc.
Thanks
Jay

It depends what you mean by resize. Do you mean scale by a given factor (1), or do you mean grow
each edge by a fixed amount (2), or do you mean stretch in some direction (3) or ... (4) ?

Here's some clues :

(1) leSizeShape
(2) dbLayerSize
(3) leStretchShape
(4) ...

Stéphane

 

[Jay]

On Apr 13, 2:02 am, "S. Badel" <stephane.ba...@REMOVETHISepfl.ch>
wrote:

Hi
I am a beginner at SKILL. I have a set of mixed shapes on a layout
(rect,ellipse, polygons) which I want to resize on the fly. Is there
an easy way to do it by calling one Skill function or do I have to
specifically traverse over shapes, see what type it is and then
increase attributes like width etc.
Thanks
Jay

It depends what you mean by resize. Do you mean scale by a given factor (1), or do you mean grow
each edge by a fixed amount (2), or do you mean stretch in some direction (3) or ... (4) ?

Here's some clues :

(1) leSizeShape
(2) dbLayerSize
(3) leStretchShape
(4) ...

Stéphane

Thanks Stéphane

I was able to use leSizeScale to get what I was looking for.
Thanks a lot.

Jay