Changing the Appearance of Draglines

When using the commands listed below, Layout XL displays draglines which connect the pins on the object to the nearest pins on another object on the net. When you move the object closer to a different object on the same net, the lines reconnect to the new object.

• Generate Selected From Source
• Generate Clones
• Move
• Stretch

If you need to know more about the potential connections for the instance you are working on, you can change both the number and the appearance of the draglines using the options under Draglines in the General tab of the Connectivity form.

You can display draglines for all the connections to the instance you are working on, hide the draglines for global nets and for power and ground nets, and have each dragline shown in a different color.

Displaying many draglines during interactive commands can impair the performance of Layout XL. To mitigate these effects, use the maxDragFig environment variable to limit the number of figures that can be in a dragset.

• To set maxDragFig interactively so that it takes effect in the current session, type the following in the CIW, where win is the window to which the limit applies.
  

  win~>maxDragFig = 1000

• To set a default value for maxDragFig, which will be used in all future Layout XL sessions, put the following line in your .cdsenv file.
  

  graphic maxDragFig int 1000 nil

Related Topics

Connectivity Form