Show Content

• Virtual hierarchies
• Virtual hierarchy clones

Switch the Navigator assistant Summary pane view to show the contents inside the selected virtual hierarchy.

Ungroup

• Virtual hierarchies
• Virtual hierarchy clones

Delete the area boundary around the virtual hierarchy group and display the components as individual objects at the top level.

Any virtual hierarchies that exist inside the ungrouped virtual hierarchy continue to exist as a virtual hierarchy group at the top level.

Adjust Boundary

• Virtual hierarchies
• Virtual hierarchy clones

Resize the virtual hierarchy at the top level and create boundaries at any level.

See Adjust Boundary Form.

Auto Place

• Virtual hierarchies

Automatically places all instances inside an area boundary.

See Automatic Placement.

Check Against Source

• Virtual hierarchies
• Virtual hierarchy clones

Check and report mismatches between the schematic and layout views of the virtual hierarchy currently being edited in place.

See Check Against Source.

Update From Source

• Virtual hierarchies
• Virtual hierarchy clones

Updates the components from source for the virtual hierarchies selected at the top level or for the ones available on Edit In Place to update any mismatches in the selected set.

Make Cell

• Virtual hierarchies
• Virtual hierarchy clones

Creates a new cellview and replaces the virtual hierarchy with an instance of this cellview.

See Make Cell Form.

Delete Virtual Pins

• Created virtual hierarchies
• Created virtual hierarchy clones

Deletes all virtual pins from selected virtual hierarchies.

See lxDeleteVirtualPins.

Remaster

• Virtual hierarchies
• Virtual hierarchy clones

Replaces the selected virtual hierarchy with the layout master that exists on disk.

See Remaster Form.

Convert to Modgen

• Created virtual hierarchies only

Converts the selected virtual hierarchies to Modgens.

See Converting Created Virtual Hierarchies to Modgens

Placement Status

• Virtual hierarchies
• Virtual hierarchy clones

Set the Placement Status of the selected virtual hierarchy and virtual hierarchy clones to Fixed, Locked, or None.

Fixed and Locked maintain the original placement of the selected virtual hierarchies and virtual hierarchy clones. None keeps the contents of the virtual hierarchy flexible for placement.

See Make Virtual Hierarchy Form.

Display

• Virtual hierarchies
• Virtual hierarchy clones
• Instances inside virtual hierarchies

Choose Increment to increase the display depth for all the selected virtual hierarchies.

Choose Decrement to decrease the display depth for all the selected virtual hierarchies.

Choose Set Default Display Depth to set the Default display depth to 0 and deselect all the objects that were previously selected.

See Virtual Hierarchy Display Controls.

Choose Highlight to highlight the selected virtual group contents or the selected instances inside the virtual group in the chosen color.

Choose Unhighlight to remove the color highlights.

Reclone

Virtual hierarchy clones

Create virtual hierarchy clones belonging to the same master for the selected, generated virtual hierarchy.

If the clone family was broken or any new clones were generated since the clone family was last updated, you can use the Reclone command to update the clone family. Select any of the clone sources to reclone all the clone family members belonging to the same master.

You can also use the command to add Modgens to an existing virtual hierarchy clone.

See Virtual Hierarchy Recloning.

Update Clone Families

Virtual hierarchy clones

Update the status of the selected virtual hierarchy clone family, rename the clone family, remove a clone from the family, create and remove clone families, and add a group to an existing family.

See Update Clone Families.

Select Clone Family

Virtual hierarchy clones

Select all the members of the selected virtual hierarchy clone family.

See Selecting a Clone Family.

Remove Clone From Family

Virtual hierarchy clones

Remove the selected virtual hierarchy clone from the virtual hierarchy clone family.

See Removing a Clone From Family.

Select

Local Nets

Select external nets that have virtual pins as local nets for the selected virtual hierarchy.