Window Display FAQs
The following are the FAQs related to window display:
- How do I display Instance contents?
- How do I display instances being edited?
- How do I see what the search command finds?
- How do I find the cds environment variables corresponding to the fields in the Display Options and Layout Editor Options forms?
- How do I define the layout cellview selection box?
How do I display Instance contents?
If you see only an outline of each instance instead of the details of objects inside the instance, change the display level settings.
To turn on instance detail, press Shift+F.
Shift+F is the bindkey equivalent of using the Display Options form to set the display levels to 0 through 32.
How do I display instances being edited?
If you are editing a cell in place, you can set the window to display only the instance that you are editing.
To see the rest of the instances:
How do I see what the search command finds?
If you use the Search command to search for or select objects and your cellview is zoomed in, the command might find an object that is not visible in the current window.
To zoom the cellview so the objects searched appear in the window:
Now, each time you click Previous or Next, the cellview is redrawn so that the object is centered in the window.
How do I find the cds environment variables corresponding to the fields in the Display Options and Layout Editor Options forms?
You can find the cds environment variables corresponding to the fields in the Display Options and Layout Editor Options forms by searching the field in the Search Assistant. You access the Search assistant by selecting Window – Assistants – Search.
How do I define the layout cellview selection box?
A cell is selectable when the cursor moves over an invisible layer near the cell boundary. You can change the invisible layer so that the selectability of the cell is very tiny. For example, the selectability is only the lower-left corner of the cell. When the cursor moves over the cell, it will not be selectable, or dynamically highlighted till the cursor is on the lower-left corner of the cell. For this, you should enable the Use True BBox option on the Display Options form to create user-defined instance or drawing shape to display the outline of the instance instead of the cellview bounding box.
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