Setup

Lets you specify the type of information displayed for shapes and objects. You can choose to customize the display information for top-level categories or for individual shape and object types.

Info Balloon

Lets you specify display settings for information balloons. You can set the pause time, fade time, and transparency level of information balloons.

Dynamic Measurement

Lets you specify the height and color of the text displayed during dynamic measurement.

Highlight Aligned Edges

Lets you specify the width and color of the highlight displayed on the edges of aligned shapes.

Show Info Balloon

Displays information balloon showing information about an object or shape when the pointer is moved over the existing shape or object. The type of information can be customized and is object dependent.

Environment variable: balloonOn

Measurement Display On

Displays information about objects and shapes dynamically, during creation or editing of objects. The type of information can be customized and is object dependent.

Environment variable: measurementDisplayOn

Highlight Aligned Edges On

Highlights edges of the shapes aligned to the pointer in horizontal and vertical directions.

Environment variable: highlightAlignedEdges

Object Display Setting

Allows you to expand categories to display shape and object types. You can display and customize information about existing objects or dynamically during the creation or editing of objects.

You must first turn on the controls for information balloons or textual display of measurements.

Virtuoso XL

Displays an expandable tree that contains the Shapes and Objects categories in which data types are organized.

• Shapes: Displays the types of shapes that you can customize for information balloon and dynamic measurement display.
• Objects: Displays the types of objects that you can customize for information balloon and dynamic measurement display.

Configuration

Enables you to save and load the customized display of shapes and objects information.

Save

Opens the Save Configuration form where you can specify the details to save the configuration.

Delete

Removes the selected configuration.

Default

Saves the selected configuration as the default configuration.

Contents

Lists the available parameters for a shape or object.

For information about parameters, see Parameter Types for Shapes and Objects.

Select

Enables you to select or deselect all available parameters for a shape or object.

• All: Enables you to select all available parameters for each shape and object rather than selecting parameters individually. By default, all parameters are selected for the default configuration.
• None: Enables you to deselect all available parameters for each shape and object rather than deselecting parameters individually.

Pause Time

Specifies the amount of time before the information balloon will appear when the pointer is over an object. Valid values are between 0 and 10.

Environment variable: balloonPauseTime

Fade Time

Specifies the amount of time (in seconds) for the information balloons to fade away after the balloon appears. Valid values are between .001 and 100.

Environment variable: balloonFadeTime

Transparency

Specifies the transparency of the balloon information box. When set to 0, the box is completely transparent. When set to 100, objects behind the box are not visible. The default is 50.

Environment variable: balloonTransparency

Text Height (pixels)

Specifies the height of the text displayed during dynamic measurement. Valid values are any integer between 4 and 50.

Environment variable: measurementTextHeight

Color

Specifies the color of the text displayed during dynamic measurement.

Environment variable: dynamicMeasurementTextColor

Width

Specifies the width of the highlight displayed on the edges of aligned shapes. You can choose from: Thin, Medium, or Thick.

Environment variable: highlightAlignedEdgesWidth

Color

Specifies the color of the highlight displayed on the edges of aligned shapes.

Environment variable: highlightAlignedEdgesColor

Rectangle

X-Length, Y-Length, Area, Perimeter, XL Status, LPP, Label, NetName (if applicable), LPP-Color

Delta XY

Polygon

Area, X-Length, Y-Length, Perimeter, XL Status, LPP, Label, NetName (if applicable), LPP-Color

Delta XY, Distance

Path

XL Status, Area, Width, Length, LPP, Label, NetName (if applicable), LPP-Color

The length of a path is the total centerline path length and does not include beginning or ending extensions.

The info balloon also displays the area information.

Delta XY, Distance

MPP

XL Status, Area, Width, Length, LPP, Label, NetName (if applicable), LPP-Color

The length of a multipart path is the total centerline path length and does not include beginning or ending extensions or subparts.

Delta XY, Distance

Pathseg

XL Status, Area, Width, Length, LPP, Label, NetName (if applicable), LPP-Color

The info balloon also displays the area and total length information.

Delta XY, Distance

Circle

Area, Perimeter, Radius, XL Status, LPP, Label, LPP-Color

Delta XY

Ellipse

Area, Perimeter, XL Status, LPP, Label, LPP-Color

Delta XY

Donut

Area, Perimeter, Radius, XL Status, LPP, Label, LPP-Color

Delta XY

Label

LPP, Label (text of label)

Delta XY

TextDisplay

LPP, Label (text of label)

Instance

XL Status, Label (lib/cell/view names)

Delta XY

Blockage

Area, X-Length, Y-Length, Perimeter, LPP, LPP-Color, Distance, Label (any label attached to the blockage)

Delta XY, Distance

Row

X-Length, Y-Length, Area, Row Sites, Label (row base name)

Delta XY

Boundary

Area, Perimeter, LPP, Label (boundary name)

For the PR boundary of a soft block, ‘Area’ displays the soft block utilization information.

Delta XY, Distance

Via

XL Status, NetName, LPP-Color, Label (viaDefName)

Delta XY

Custom Placement

Area, Perimeter

Delta XY

Marker

Message (type tool, short message, severity)

Pin

XL Status, LPP, Label (pin name), NetName, LPP-Color

Delta XY

Modgen

Label (any label attached to the modgen)

Delta XY

Ruler

Length, Points

Delta XY

Row Region

Area, Perimeter, Label, Custom SKILL Function

Virtual

Area, Label, Stop Level, Type, Placement Status (These parameters are selected by default)

Perimeter, Distance, Delta XY, Custom SKILL Function (These parameters are not selected by default)

The parameters are also displayed in the info balloon. If Delta XY is selected for dynamic measurement, it is also displayed in the info balloon.

Delta XY