And I have run longer TCL scripts. Is it something...
# magicw
Weston Braun
05/15/2021, 9:41 PMAnd I have run longer TCL scripts. Is it something to do with placing boxes / painting on the edges of non-manhatten geometries?
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Tim Edwards
05/16/2021, 2:21 AMI have not seen magic freeze up on non-Manhattan geometry for a very long time, but that's not to say it can't happen.
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Weston Braun
05/16/2021, 2:22 AMIf you run that tcl script magic should freeze
Weston Braun
05/16/2021, 2:22 AMIf you remove the last 10 or so lines before the flatten and load commands magic will not freeze
Weston Braun
05/16/2021, 2:24 AMSo I am not sure what’s causing it. Running those 10 lines in isolation is fine too
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Tim Edwards
05/16/2021, 2:31 AMYes, I can replicate the problem. Magic has definitely locked itself up in an infinite loop. Almost certainly it is caused by the tile fracturing for the non-Manhattan geometry but I will have to debug it. One suggestion for working around the problem is a bit of a kludge, but should work, which is to put each of the diagonal stripes in a separate cell. Possibly even just splitting the whole thing into two or three cells, with the diagonal wires in a separate cell, would do the trick. I'll keep the Tcl script for debugging.
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Weston Braun
05/16/2021, 8:45 PMThanks for the advice, that work around works. I can even flatten the design afterwards and it does not freeze.
Weston Braun
05/16/2021, 8:46 PMMy script spits out ~ 2.5k tcl lines for the 6x6 grid case and my final case is a 32x32 grid. It takes a bit of time to process. Is there any way to hide the GUI or something and speed up processing?
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Tim Edwards
05/16/2021, 8:49 PMAny corner cases left will be found in very dark and remote corners. . .
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Tim Edwards
05/16/2021, 8:50 PMTo hide the GUI, what you want is to surround your script with
suspendallresumeall