Virtual Pin Snapping

The Design Planning and Analysis tool supports snapping of virtual pins to the nearest area boundary edge when the virtual pin is moved. The pin snapping works for both top-level PR Boundary and soft blocks when Level-1 editing is enabled.

For virtual pins to be snapped, the placement status of the associated virtual hierarchy must be set to None and the environment variables snapToGrid and snapToBoundary should both be set to true. The virtual pins are also snapped to the nearest area boundary edge when adjusting the area boundary of a virtual hierarchy using the Adjust Boundary, Stretch, Chop, or Reshape command. This happens regardless of the value of the snapToGrid and snapToBoundary environment variables but the placement status of the associated virtual hierarchy must be set to None.

Related Topics

Setting Up Snap Grid