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How to move a Layout Design to Origin (0,0)

manrajgujral
I have made a layout structure consisting of 20 to 30 smaller components plus additional metal paths and pins. This was made as a revision to an older design and after a lot of changes the origin is not at 0,0. Question: How do I move all the components w.r.t each other to the Origin 0,0 ? Meaning I don’t want to skew anything and move the entire layout to 0,0 I had used MAGIC (an educational software for Layout – and not as intimidating as Cadence)during university where we could select the entire layout had a execute a command which then moves everything to the origin. Simple and Sweet. I am having trouble doing the same thing in LayoutL. I am aware of the EDIT-> Advanced->move Origin command, but all it does it provide a x-y cursor which you have to roughly estimate (like taking a shot in a 1st person shoot-out game). It can be made to hit 0,0 with the help of rulers and such, but it isn’t a very elegant way of doing things
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  • I'm slightly confused by this. When you place an instance, the box (if you have the display stop level set to 0) is around the extent of the data in the cellView being instantiated (unless there's data on the "instance" layer, but that's another story). The cursor is not necessarily in the bottom left of this box - the cursor is actually at wherever is 0:0 inside the cellView. So if the coordinates of the layout being instantiated were such that 0:0 was in the centre, the cursor would be in the centre of this box.

    It's not clear precisely what you're asking for. If you're asking for a way to make 0:0 the lower left corner of the bounding box of the cellView, you can do that with SKILL:

     leMoveCellViewOrigin(cv=geGetEditCellView() lowerLeft(cv~>bBox))

    Perhaps that's what you want?

    BTW, are you using Chrome as your browser? This forum seems to lose the formatting if Chrome is used. IE and Firefox work fine though.

    Andrew.

     

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  • I'm slightly confused by this. When you place an instance, the box (if you have the display stop level set to 0) is around the extent of the data in the cellView being instantiated (unless there's data on the "instance" layer, but that's another story). The cursor is not necessarily in the bottom left of this box - the cursor is actually at wherever is 0:0 inside the cellView. So if the coordinates of the layout being instantiated were such that 0:0 was in the centre, the cursor would be in the centre of this box.

    It's not clear precisely what you're asking for. If you're asking for a way to make 0:0 the lower left corner of the bounding box of the cellView, you can do that with SKILL:

     leMoveCellViewOrigin(cv=geGetEditCellView() lowerLeft(cv~>bBox))

    Perhaps that's what you want?

    BTW, are you using Chrome as your browser? This forum seems to lose the formatting if Chrome is used. IE and Firefox work fine though.

    Andrew.

     

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