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Showing contents of a cell while dragging

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In Layout (I'm using 6.1.3.500.13) , there are these bindkeys Shift-F and Ctrl-F to show/hide the contents of instances in the layout. Now when I drag an instance around, the contents of the instance disappear. In "hide contents mode" (Ctrl-F) an outline of the cell is shown, but in "show contents mode" (Shift-F) the entire cell disappears and you're basically moving an invisible ghost with flight lines. Needless to say this is cumbersome when you want to move instances with any degree of accuracy.

This doesn't happen with polygons on the current level of hierarchy; these always remain visible while dragging. Is there a way to make this happen with instances as well?

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  • Hi Alex,

    I've tried all the display options you've mentioned, and none change anything. Turning off draglines using F3 just turns off the draglines (obviously), which makes the whole operation completely invisible.

    Turning up the maxDragFig, even to its maximum (2147483647) doesn't fix it either.

    I've included a screenshot just to make sure we're talking about the same thing. On the left I'm dragging an instance after Shift-F, on the right after Ctrl-F (click to see the whole picture).

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  • Hi Alex,

    I've tried all the display options you've mentioned, and none change anything. Turning off draglines using F3 just turns off the draglines (obviously), which makes the whole operation completely invisible.

    Turning up the maxDragFig, even to its maximum (2147483647) doesn't fix it either.

    I've included a screenshot just to make sure we're talking about the same thing. On the left I'm dragging an instance after Shift-F, on the right after Ctrl-F (click to see the whole picture).

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