Display and Selection Controls

Layout XL provides various display and selection controls to make it easier for you to work with your designs. For example, you can choose to print process information to the Command Interpreter Window (CIW). You can use shortcut menus to access commands quickly. You can select objects either before or after you start a command.

You can customize the display settings for the layout canvas. You can set the options forms to be opened automatically and change layer display colors.

Printing in the CIW

To print process information to the CIW instead of to a separate Layout XL Info window:

• Add the following line to your .cdsenv file or type it in the CIW:
  

  envSetVal("layoutXL" "infoWindow" 'boolean nil)

Multiple Cellviews Opened in Layout XL

You can open more than one pair of schematic-layout windows in Layout XL and work on each pair independently. However, when you open multiple cellviews in Layout XL, the second and subsequent sets of windows are not automatically configured in the same way as the first set.

• If you open a schematic and two copies of the same layout, the XL Probe command and the commands in the Check and Update submenus apply to both layouts.
• If you open a schematic and two different layouts, the XL Probe command and the commands in the Check and Update submenus apply only to the layout from which you selected the command.

Related Topics

Shortcut Menus

Object Selection Modes in Layout XL

Displaying Options Forms Automatically

Layer Display Colors

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