Cannot Paste an Object

If you use Yank and Paste commands to cut through the hierarchy and place parts of an instance into a different library, the new library must define all the layers you yanked. If it does not, you see the following message:

Shapes on invalid or invisible layers not pasted.

The Yank command lets you copy an area of the cellview, cutting through layers of hierarchy. You can select just part of an instance to copy with Yank, then use Paste to place the parts of the instance you copied into any cellview.

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