-cellMap cmfileName

Name of the cell map file. This is an ASCII file that stores the mapping information between the OpenAccess cellview names and the Stream cell names.

-command shellCommand

Runs shellCommand before importing and merging the color annotations in the Stream file.

-createColorsOnTopLevel

Creates all hierarchical color annotations in the top cell specified by the -topCell argument.

-layerMap lmfileName

Name of the layer map file. This an ASCII file that maps the layer numbers and data types used in the Stream file to layer-purpose pairs in OpenAccess, and vice-versa. The default is layers.map.

-logFile lfileName

Name of the log file to record the translation process steps and the messages generated by colorAnnotate.

-noInfo msgIDs

Suppresses the specified INFO messages. msgIds is a space-separated list of numbers. Each number in the list represents the numerical portion of the ID for the message to be suppressed. 0 is not a valid message number. Suppressed messages do not appear on the terminal or in the log file.

-noWarning msgIDs

Suppresses the specified WARNING messages. msgIds is a space-separated list of numbers. Each number in the list represents the numerical portion of the ID for the message to be suppressed. 0 is not a valid message number. Suppressed messages do not appear on the terminal or in the log file and are not included in the total of WARNING messages displayed in the summary.

-numThreads count

Number of threads to use for translating.

-templateFile file

Name of the template file. This ASCII file specifies the arguments for the command.

-view viewName

Name of the view to translate. The default is layout.

-h | -help

Prints the help message.

-v

Prints the tool, format, and library version information.

-version

Prints the tool and format version information.

-treatLockedAsAnnotate

Considers the lines in layer map file with locked in it as colorAnnotate and imports shapes on those GDS layerNum or datatype. This applies to all the color locked shapes in the gds filees that you are color annotating back in the Virtuoso OA database.