using klayout python interface interactively on an open layout

woelt

Is it presently possible to use the console of the the python development window to interactively execute python commands and on a design in an open window? That feature would really help in code development.... that how I used to use skill on layouts....

Matthias

Sure you can do this. It's just not a single liner.

Here is how you can create a rectangle with lower left corner at 0,0 and width of 0.5 and height of 1 micrometers on layer 7/0 in the current cell:

> cell = pya.CellView.active().cell
> layer7 = cell.layout().layer(7, 0)
> cell.shapes(layer7).insert(pya.DBox(0, 0, 0.5, 1.0))

Matthias