Electronics circuit graphics symbol scaling method
AssigneeMotorola, Inc.
InventorRalph C. Bennett
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Abstract
A method for scaling (reducing or enlarging) electronic device symbols operates on an input file (ie. body file) of information in precoded characteristics representing the electronic device symbol. The characteristic has a plurality of parameters describing it. The method, performed by a computer, first parses a plurality of parameters associated with the characteristic. Certain parameters are selected and scaled by the method. Lastly, the scaled parameters are reassembled along with the non-scaled parameters in the same characteristic and replaced in the body file of information.
Claims21
A method for graphics scaling of electronic circuit device symbols by a computer comprising the steps of:
- providing an input file including at least one characteristic of a device symbol;
- said characteristic including a plurality of parameters describing the characteristic;
- parsing by the computer the plurality of parameters of the input file;
- selecting by the computer certain ones of the plurality of parameters;
- scaling by the computer the selected certain ones of the plurality of parameters according to a scaling factor;
- and
- reassembling by the computer the input file including the at least one characteristic including the plurality of parameters and the scaled certain ones replacing the selected certain ones of the plurality of parameters.
A method for graphics scaling of electronic circuit device symbols of a graphics library by a computer comprising the steps of;
- receiving by the computer a library name and a scaling factor from a user;
- finding an unscaled electronic circuit device symbol in a library of the library name;
- reading an input file information, including at least one characteristic of the electronic circuit device symbol;
- said characteristic including a plurality of parameters describing the characteristic;
- parsing by the computer plurality of parameters of said input file information;
- selecting by the computer certain ones of the plurality of parameters;
- scaling by the computer the selected certain ones of the plurality of parameters according to a scaling factor;
- and
- reassembling by the computer the input file including the at least one characteristic including the plurality of parameters and the scaled certain ones replacing the selected certain ones of the plurality of parameters;
- repeating the steps of reading, parsing, selecting, scaling and reassembling until each of the device symbols of the library is scaled.
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