Using Python script, how to delete all shapes in a layer without deleting text

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• Matthias

  June 2023

  No worries, I moved the discussion.

  By coincidence I just implemented a "clear" version that takes a parameter to select which shape types to clear. But that will have to wait until the next minor release.

  Until then there is a shape-selecting version of "Shapes.insert" which can be used:

  for cell in layout.each_cell():
    texts_only = pya.Shapes()
    texts_only.insert(cell.shapes(layer), pya.Shapes.STexts)
    cell.shapes(layer).assign(texts_only)
  

  Matthias