Design Partition View Contents Section in Designer Mode
The Design Partition View Contents section becomes available when you are editing a design partition view.
This section comprises three main components:
Each of these components is described in detail below.
Design Partition View Toolbar
The following table lists the functions of the different options on the Design Partition View toolbar:
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Zooms automatically into selected design partition or selected changes. |
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Toggles the display of halo over the edited object in the canvas. When enabled, the selected objects in the Details pane are haloed in the canvas |
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Toggles the cross selection of objects in Details pane to the canvas |
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Toggles between Off and Only Select Inside Partition modes. When set to Off, there are no restrictions about creating or editing in the current design partition. |
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Prevents selecting objects that are fully outside and area-based design partition. Objects that are fully or partially inside or have been temporarily moved outside the current partition for editing are also selectable. This option is selected by default. In layer-based design partitions, the CLE filter is selected in the Layer Palette and only the valid layers are selectable. However there is no restriction on vias because the Create Via, Create Wire, and routing commands can use all vias. You need to sign off the out of partition warnings in the assistant. |
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Lets you edit only within the current design partition. Supported commands are: Create – Shapes, Create – Instance, Create – Pin, Create – Label, Create – Fluid Guard Ring, Create – Wiring – Wire, Create – Via, Edit – Move, Edit – Copy, Edit – Stretch, Edit – Delete, Edit – Quick Align, Edit – Advanced – Reshape. In a layer-based design partitions, only valid layers and valid vias are selectable |
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Selects only those shapes that are unassigned or assigned to a net in the selection filter on nets, or have been modified. |
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Pcell is selectable if at least one instance terminal is unassigned or assigned to one net in the net filter. Regular instances are always selectable to enable the user to Edit In Place (EIP) or Descend Edit. For a net-based design partition, the default filter is the net set. |
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Hide signed off checks in the Details pane. The Summary pane shows a number, which are in the format visible or total, if there are hidden signed-off checks. |
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Finds an object in assistant by clicking an object in the canvas without altering the canvas selection. |
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Displays the Remove Changes from Design Partition View Form form that lets you remove the changes for which the filter state has been set from the current design partition view. You can set the filter state of a change from the Filter State option in the Details Pane. |
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Type the search keyword to filter the result in the Details pane. Use the drop-down menu to customize your search. |
Related Topics
Concurrent Layout Toolbar in Designer Mode
Design Partition Options in Designer Mode
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