Workspace Features

Cadence provides a set of workspaces designed to help you perform a set of related tasks, such as working with constraints or performing interactive searches within your design. Each workspace is tailored to a particular application, cellview, or work objective.

As well as being able to select from a set of Cadence-supplied workspaces, you can create your own workspaces that consist only of the user-interface components you want to assist you when working with a particular application, subapplication, or view type.

You can customize a workspace for a particular work objective. For example, you can create a custom configuration for schematic setup (such as schematicSetup) and another custom configuration for schematic modifications (such as schematicMod).

You can use a workspace to change the way you view your data by choosing what assistant panes and toolbars appear in your window, where they appear, and whether each assistant pane is docked or floating. You cannot use a workspace to manipulate (filter or reduce) the underlying data itself. For example, you cannot use a workspace to restrict which parameters appear on the Property Inspector assistant pane or to program which label display objects appear on the main schematic canvas.

You cannot remove or edit any of the following user-interface components as part of your custom workspace:

• Main menu bar (menu banner) appearing at the top of a design session window
  You cannot alter the existence, location, or content of the main menu bar.
• Main menu bar submenu content
  You cannot remove any menu items from the main menu bar submenus or exchange them between menus.
• Toolbar buttons/icons
  You cannot add or remove tool buttons from a toolbar or swap them between toolbars.
• Context-sensitive menus: right-click menus
  You cannot change the content of these menus.
• Menu bars, toolbars, context-sensitive menus associated with an assistant pane
  You cannot modify any of these additional user-interface components that might appear as part of an assistant pane in your workspace.

You can save time creating your setup preferences by selecting a Cadence workspace or other custom configuration that closely matches your requirements as a starting point.

Related Topics

Customizing a Cadence Workspace

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