Forum Post: Tried using the ABE to obtain layer within a bBox, got all abutting layer shapes instead

Hello fellow community members, So I have two instances with their "metal1" shapes abutting. I want to extract the "metal1" shapes from one cell but not the other. What I did was: (abeInit cv) (abeLayerFromCellView "metal1" ?bBox (getq instance1 bBox)) What I expected is that this will extract the "metal1" shapes from instance1 but not from instance2. What ends up happening is, because the shapes are abutting, the "metal1" shapes for both instances get extracted, even though instance2 lies completely outside the bBox of instance1. Is this the expected behavior? Is there any way I can get around it? Thanks, Joe