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how to select a whole wire with all the bends

wighou

 Hi,

It's a dummy problem but a bit boring for user experience. When I select a wire in the schematic editor, the only wire part that is selected is the straight part I point. Is it possible to select the whole wire (with all the bends) with one click ?

  • Click once once on a segment to select that segment, then double click on the selected segment to select all connected segments.

    Regards,

    Andrew. 

  •  I don't get this to work. Probably, there is something wrong with my key bindings. What function is used? What should I write in my key bindings file?

  • But this method doesn't work if the net is connected by label. How can I highlight the whole net with the same net name?

    I have found the following way.

    Press and release key "9" and after that click on the net by mouse. It will highlight the whole net with the same name. Function is called "Add Net" (Menu -> Design -> Probe - Add Net).

    To remove highlighting use "Remove All"

     

  • Hi Andrew, I wonder if there is a way to select nets (something like "9") IGNORING e.g. an iprobe (as in fact the net is electrically ONE net, only logically split in two or more. Any help welcome, thx in advance!

  • envSetVal("graphic" "probeTraverseFeedThrough" 'boolean t)
    envSetVal("graphic" "probeNetDisplayHierarchyLevel" 'int 2)
    ciRegisterDevice("probeShort"
    '( (nil "iprobe" nil (nil shortedTerminalMap (("PLUS" "MINUS") ) )) ))

    should do the job. This is as described in solution 11774090. Note that the hierarchy level in the above has to be 2 or more (for some reason that is currently being explored with R&D - it's not entirely obvious to me why).

    Also, you have to do the above before you open the schematic window.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

  • I meant to point out that the above suggestion then allows the "probe" command (e.g. the 9 bindkey) to probe through an iprobe. It doesn't affect the selection with click, double-click.
  • Hi Andrew, that works really good for iprobe. BUT we have some own 2-terminal devices in our environment (not located in analogLib) that essentially do the same. is there a trick to reference sthg else? I'm terying to find documentation on ciRegisterDevice, maybe the first nil before "res" is the library (defaulting to analogLib). Thanks a lot anyhow!

  • Martin,

    Here's another example:

    ciRegisterDevice("probeShort"
    '( ("gpdk045" "resnsnpoly_2" nil (nil shortedTerminalMap (("PLUS" "MINUS") ) ))
       ("basic" "iprobe" nil (nil shortedTerminalMap (("PLUS" "MINUS"))))
       ("basic" "cds_thru" nil (nil shortedTerminalMap (("src" "dst"))))
    ))

    The value is a list of lists. Each sublist is the lib/cell/view (I think) for a device - if nil is specified for the lib then it means that cell from any library. Then there is a disembodied property list, which is the pairs of terminals to short out. I believe it should then work with devices with more than 2 terminals (I didn't try that) - but the above works.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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