API reference - Class SimplePolygon

!=

Signature: [const] bool != (const SimplePolygon p)

Description: Inequality test

*

Signature: [const] SimplePolygon * (double f)

Description: Scaling by some factor

Returns the scaled object. All coordinates are multiplied with the given factor and if necessary rounded.

<

Signature: [const] bool < (const SimplePolygon p)

Description: Less operator

This operator is provided to establish some, not necessarily a certain sorting order

This method has been introduced in version 0.25.

==

Signature: [const] bool == (const SimplePolygon p)

Description: Equality test

_create

Signature: void _create

Description: Ensures the C++ object is created

Use this method to ensure the C++ object is created, for example to ensure that resources are allocated. Usually C++ objects are created on demand and not necessarily when the script object is created.

_destroy

Signature: void _destroy

Description: Explicitly destroys the object

Explicitly destroys the object on C++ side if it was owned by the script interpreter. Subsequent access to this object will throw an exception. If the object is not owned by the script, this method will do nothing.

_destroyed?

Signature: [const] bool _destroyed?

Description: Returns a value indicating whether the object was already destroyed

This method returns true, if the object was destroyed, either explicitly or by the C++ side. The latter may happen, if the object is owned by a C++ object which got destroyed itself.

_is_const_object?

Signature: [const] bool _is_const_object?

Description: Returns a value indicating whether the reference is a const reference

This method returns true, if self is a const reference. In that case, only const methods may be called on self.

_manage

Signature: void _manage

Description: Marks the object as managed by the script side.

After calling this method on an object, the script side will be responsible for the management of the object. This method may be called if an object is returned from a C++ function and the object is known not to be owned by any C++ instance. If necessary, the script side may delete the object if the script's reference is no longer required.

Usually it's not required to call this method. It has been introduced in version 0.24.

_unmanage

Signature: void _unmanage

Description: Marks the object as no longer owned by the script side.

Calling this method will make this object no longer owned by the script's memory management. Instead, the object must be managed in some other way. Usually this method may be called if it is known that some C++ object holds and manages this object. Technically speaking, this method will turn the script's reference into a weak reference. After the script engine decides to delete the reference, the object itself will still exist. If the object is not managed otherwise, memory leaks will occur.

Usually it's not required to call this method. It has been introduced in version 0.24.

area

Signature: [const] long area

Description: The area of the polygon

The area is correct only if the polygon is not self-overlapping and the polygon is oriented clockwise.

assign

Signature: void assign (const SimplePolygon other)

Description: Assigns another object to self

bbox

Signature: [const] Box bbox

Description: Return the bounding box of the simple polygon

compress

Signature: void compress (bool remove_reflected)

Description: Compress the simple polygon.

This method removes redundant points from the polygon, such as points being on a line formed by two other points. If remove_reflected is true, points are also removed if the two adjacent edges form a spike.

This method was introduced in version 0.18.

create

Signature: void create

Description: Ensures the C++ object is created

Use of this method is deprecated. Use _create instead

destroy

Signature: void destroy

Description: Explicitly destroys the object

Use of this method is deprecated. Use _destroy instead

destroyed?

Signature: [const] bool destroyed?

Description: Returns a value indicating whether the object was already destroyed

Use of this method is deprecated. Use _destroyed? instead

dup

Signature: [const] new SimplePolygon ptr dup

Description: Creates a copy of self

each_edge

Signature: [const,iter] Edge each_edge

Description: Iterate over the edges that make up the simple polygon

each_point

Signature: [const,iter] Point each_point

Description: Iterate over the points that make up the simple polygon

ellipse

Signature: [static] new SimplePolygon ptr ellipse (const Box box,int n)

Description: Creates a simple polygon appoximating an ellipse

This method has been introduced in version 0.23.

extract_rad

Signature: [const] variant[] extract_rad

Description: Extracts the corner radii from a rounded polygon

Attempts to extract the radii of rounded corner polygon. This is essentially the inverse of the round_corners method. If this method succeeds, if will return an array of four elements:

• The polygon with the rounded corners replaced by edgy ones
• The radius of the inner corners
• The radius of the outer corners
• The number of points per full circle

This method is based on some assumptions and may fail. In this case, an empty array is returned.

If successful, the following code will more or less render the original polygon and parameters

p = ...   # some polygon
p.round_corners(ri, ro, n)
(p2, ri2, ro2, n2) = p.extract_rad
# -> p2 == p, ro2 == ro, ri2 == ri, n2 == n (within some limits)

This method was introduced in version 0.25.

from_dpoly

Signature: [static] new SimplePolygon ptr from_dpoly (const DSimplePolygon dpolygon)

Description: Creates an integer coordinate polygon from a floating-point coordinate polygon

Use of this method is deprecated. Use new instead

Python specific notes:
This method is the default initializer of the object

from_s

Signature: [static] new SimplePolygon ptr from_s (string s)

Description: Creates an object from a string

Creates the object from a string representation (as returned by to_s)

This method has been added in version 0.23.

hash

Signature: [const] unsigned long hash

Description: Computes a hash value

Returns a hash value for the given polygon. This method enables polygons as hash keys.

This method has been introduced in version 0.25.

Python specific notes:
This method is also available as 'hash(object)'

inside?

Signature: [const] bool inside? (Point p)

Description: Test, if the given point is inside the polygon

If the given point is inside or on the edge the polygon, true is returned. This tests works well only if the polygon is not self-overlapping and oriented clockwise.

is_box?

Signature: [const] bool is_box?

Description: Returns true, if the polygon is a simple box.

A polygon is a box if it is identical to it's bounding box.

This method was introduced in version 0.23.

is_const_object?

Signature: [const] bool is_const_object?

Description: Returns a value indicating whether the reference is a const reference

Use of this method is deprecated. Use _is_const_object? instead

minkowsky_sum

Signature: [const] Polygon minkowsky_sum (const Edge a,bool b)

Description: Compute the Minkowsky sum of a polygon and an edge

This method was introduced in version 0.22.

Signature: [const] Polygon minkowsky_sum (const SimplePolygon a,bool b)

Description: Compute the Minkowsky sum of a polygon and a polygon

This method was introduced in version 0.22.

Signature: [const] Polygon minkowsky_sum (const Box a,bool b)

Description: Compute the Minkowsky sum of a polygon and a box

This method was introduced in version 0.22.

Signature: [const] Polygon minkowsky_sum (Point[] a,bool b)

Description: Compute the Minkowsky sum of a polygon and a contour of points (a trace)

This method was introduced in version 0.22.

move

Signature: SimplePolygon move (const Vector p)

Description: Moves the simple polygon.

Moves the simple polygon by the given offset and returns the moved simple polygon. The polygon is overwritten.

Signature: SimplePolygon move (int x,int y)

Description: Moves the polygon.

Moves the polygon by the given offset and returns the moved polygon. The polygon is overwritten.

moved

Signature: [const] SimplePolygon moved (const Vector p)

Description: Returns the moved simple polygon

Moves the simple polygon by the given offset and returns the moved simple polygon. The polygon is not modified.

Signature: [const] SimplePolygon moved (int x,int y)

Description: Returns the moved polygon (does not modify self)

Moves the polygon by the given offset and returns the moved polygon. The polygon is not modified.

This method has been introduced in version 0.23.

new

Signature: [static] new SimplePolygon ptr new (const DSimplePolygon dpolygon)

Description: Creates an integer coordinate polygon from a floating-point coordinate polygon

This constructor has been introduced in version 0.25 and replaces the previous static method 'from_dpoly'.

Python specific notes:
This method is the default initializer of the object

Signature: [static] new SimplePolygon ptr new

Description: Default constructor: creates an empty (invalid) polygon

Python specific notes:
This method is the default initializer of the object

Signature: [static] new SimplePolygon ptr new (Point[] pts,bool raw = false)

Description: Constructor given the points of the simple polygon

If the 'raw' argument is set to true, the points are taken as they are. Specifically no removal of redundant points or joining of coincident edges will take place. In effect, polygons consisting of a single point or two points can be constructed as well as polygons with duplicate points. Note that such polygons may cause problems in some applications.

Regardless of raw mode, the point list will be adjusted such that the first point is the lowest-leftmost one and the orientation is clockwise always.

The 'raw' argument has been added in version 0.24.

Python specific notes:
This method is the default initializer of the object

Signature: [static] new SimplePolygon ptr new (const Box box)

Description: Constructor converting a box to a polygon

Python specific notes:
This method is the default initializer of the object

num_points

Signature: unsigned long num_points

Description: Get the number of points

perimeter

Signature: [const] unsigned long perimeter

Description: The perimeter of the polygon

The perimeter is sum of the lengths of all edges making up the polygon.

point

Signature: Point point (unsigned long arg1)

Description: Get a specific point of the contour@args p

If the index of the point is not a valid index, a default value is returned. This method was introduced in version 0.18.

points=

Signature: void points= (Point[] pts)

Description: Set the points of the simple polygon

See the constructor description for details about raw mode.

Python specific notes:
The object exposes a writable attribute 'points'. This is the setter.

round_corners

Signature: [const] SimplePolygon round_corners (double rinner,double router,unsigned int n)

Description: Round the corners of the polygon

Replaces the corners of the polygon with circle segments.

This method was introduced in version 0.22 for integer coordinates and in 0.25 for all coordinate types.

set_points

Signature: void set_points (Point[] pts,bool raw = false)

Description: Set the points of the simple polygon

See the constructor description for details about raw mode.

This method has been added in version 0.24.

split

Signature: [const] SimplePolygon[] split

Description: Splits the polygon into two or more parts

This method will break the polygon into parts. The exact breaking algorithm is unspecified, the result are smaller polygons of roughly equal number of points and 'less concave' nature. Usually the returned polygon set consists of two polygons, but there can be more. The merged region of the resulting polygons equals the original polygon with the exception of small snapping effects at new vertexes.

The intended use for this method is a iteratively split polygons until the satisfy some maximum number of points limit.

This method has been introduced in version 0.25.3.

to_dtype

Signature: [const] DSimplePolygon to_dtype (double dbu = 1)

Description: Converts the polygon to a floating-point coordinate polygon

The database unit can be specified to translate the integer-coordinate polygon into a floating-point coordinate polygon in micron units. The database unit is basically a scaling factor.

This method has been introduced in version 0.25.

to_s

Signature: [const] string to_s

Description: Convert to a string

Python specific notes:
This method is also available as 'str(object)' and 'repr(object)'

touches?

Signature: [const] bool touches? (const Box box)

Description: Returns true, if the polygon touches the given box.

The box and the polygon touch if they overlap or their contours share at least one point.

This method was introduced in version 0.25.1.

Signature: [const] bool touches? (const Edge edge)

Description: Returns true, if the polygon touches the given edge.

The edge and the polygon touch if they overlap or the edge shares at least one point with the polygon's contour.

This method was introduced in version 0.25.1.

Signature: [const] bool touches? (const Polygon polygon)

Description: Returns true, if the polygon touches the other polygon.

The polygons touch if they overlap or their contours share at least one point.

This method was introduced in version 0.25.1.

Signature: [const] bool touches? (const SimplePolygon simple_polygon)

Description: Returns true, if the polygon touches the other polygon.

The polygons touch if they overlap or their contours share at least one point.

This method was introduced in version 0.25.1.

transform

Signature: SimplePolygon ptr transform (const ICplxTrans t)

Description: Transforms the simple polygon with a complex transformation (in-place)

Transforms the simple polygon with the given complex transformation. Modifies self and returns self. An out-of-place version which does not modify self is transformed.

This method has been introduced in version 0.24.

Signature: SimplePolygon ptr transform (const Trans t)

Description: Transforms the simple polygon (in-place)

Transforms the simple polygon with the given transformation. Modifies self and returns self. An out-of-place version which does not modify self is transformed.

This method has been introduced in version 0.24.

transformed

Signature: [const] SimplePolygon transformed (const ICplxTrans t)

Description: Transform the simple polygon.

Transforms the simple polygon with the given complex transformation. Does not modify the simple polygon but returns the transformed polygon.

This method has been introduced in version 0.18.

Signature: [const] SimplePolygon transformed (const Trans t)

Description: Transforms the simple polygon.

Transforms the simple polygon with the given transformation. Does not modify the simple polygon but returns the transformed polygon.

Signature: [const] DSimplePolygon transformed (const CplxTrans t)

Description: Transforms the simple polygon.

Transforms the simple polygon with the given complex transformation. Does not modify the simple polygon but returns the transformed polygon.

With version 0.25, the original 'transformed_cplx' method is deprecated and 'transformed' takes both simple and complex transformations.

transformed_cplx

Signature: [const] DSimplePolygon transformed_cplx (const CplxTrans t)

Description: Transforms the simple polygon.

Use of this method is deprecated. Use transformed instead