Ploting schematic without showing component parameters

 Hi Rick,

You can load the SKILL code from Solution 11131226 and then try the following to "turn off" all the instance labels:

foreach(inst
  geGetEditCellView()~>instances
  CCSselectAllInstLabels(inst)~>isVisible=nil
) 

Hopefully this will do what you want - you can set the "isVisible" attribute to 't' to make them all visible again, or close the cellview without saving; next time it opens it should display all the labels again.

Regards,

Lawrence.

You should also be able to do this without SKILL.

In your schematic, do Edit->Component Display. Pick on one of the components, and on the form select "Select Label:" to be "parameter".

Then in the Parameter Labels section, set the "Apply to: " to be "library", and then set the row below that to "none". If that doesn't work, set the "Apply to:" to be "cell", and then set it to none. In this case, you'll need to click once on each type of component. Whether it works for the library or cell depends on how the CDF has been setup.

The easiest way to get everything back to normal is to do a File->Refresh in the CIW and OK the CDF refresh form that appears.

You can also turn of terminal and instance labels using the same kind of approach.

Regards,

Andrew.

Rick,

In the solution code that Lawrence referenced, change this part of the code:

         foreach(mapcar label setof(x obj~>master~>shapes
                        and(x~>objType=="label"
                            rexMatchp("cdsParam" x~>theLabel)))

to:

         foreach(mapcar label setof(x obj~>master~>shapes
                        and(x~>objType=="label"
                            rexMatchp("cdsParam" x~>theLabel) ||
                            rexMatchp("cdsTerm" x~>theLabel)
                ))

This will pick up both the cdsParam and cdsTerm type labels.

Regards,

Andrew.

Hi,

I have the same question, but none of the code works. Maybe the commands are changed since 2010? I am using Virtuoso 6.1.6. In the View-Menu I found ways to hide some of the text (i. e. "Hide Instance Labels") but I find no way to hide the Instance Names.

Do someone have an idea?

Thank you!

For some reason the instance name (cdsName()) labels are not toggled. This is easily solved using this SKILL function - just call CCFtoggleInstName() to toggle or on off the display of those labels. Put this code in your .cdsinit and then stick the "CCFtoggleInstName()" on a bindkey maybe:

procedure(CCFtoggleInstName(@optional (win hiGetCurrentWindow()))
  let((lpp)
    lpp=techGetLP(techGetTechFile(geGetEditCellView(win)) '("annotate" "drawing7"))
    lpp->visible=!lpp->visible
    hiRedraw(win)
  )
)

Regards,

Andrew.

Hi Guys,

Is there any way that the foreach loop Rick suggested I bind to a key and toggle with the key the visibility on and off? Is there also a way also to remove cell name labels, and the labels on the nets?

Thx,

David

Not sure I quite understand the question David (and by the way, posting on the end of a 10 year old thread is not a good idea, as per the forum guidelines), but maybe this code will do what you want?

/* abToggleLabelsForPlotting.il

Author     A.D.Beckett
Group      Custom IC (UK), Cadence Design Systems Ltd.
Language   SKILL
Date       Apr 29, 2020 
Modified   
By         

Function to simply toggle label visibility on or off

***************************************************

SCCS Info: @(#) abToggleLabelsForPlotting.il 04/29/20.18:30:39 1.1

*/

/****************************************************************
*                                                               *
*    abToggleLabelsForPlotting([?win winId] [?instLabels t]     *
*          [?termLabels t] [?wireLabels t] [?notes t]           *
*                                                               *
*     Toggles labels on or off for plotting. By default all     *
* label types are toggled but you can control them individually *
* with the keyword arguments. Note that the current visibility  *
*        is determined from the first layer it looks at         *
*                                                               *
****************************************************************/

procedure(abToggleLabelsForPlotting(@key 
    (win hiGetCurrentWindow())
    (instLabels t)
    (termLabels t)
    (wireLabels t)
    (notes t)
    )
  let((lpps first lppId visibility cvId techId)
    lpps=`(
      ,@(instLabels &&
        `(
          ("device" "annotate")
          ("annotate" "drawing")
          ("annotate" "drawing7")
          )
        )
      ,@(notes &&
        `(
          ("text" "drawing")
          ("text" "drawing1")
          )
        )
      ,@(termLabels &&
        `(
          ("annotate" "drawing8")
          )
        )
      ,@(wireLabels &&
        `(
          ("wire" "label")
          )
        )
      )
    first=car(lpps)
    cvId=geGetEditCellView(win)
    techId=techGetTechFile(cvId)
    lppId=techGetLP(techId first)
    visibility=!lppId~>visible
    foreach(lpp lpps
      lppId=techGetLP(techId lpp)
      lppId~>visible=visibility
    )
    hiRedraw(win)
    visibility
  )
)

HI Andrew,

Thx a lot for the prompt reply. I am pretty new here so sorry for breaking the rules...

The code you sent is exactly what I need, or what I mean from here I can figure out myself what I need...:)

Cheers,

David