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Thumbnails in Library Manager?

GoRangers

Hi,

I recently saw someone open up their Library Manager and there were thumbnail images of the layout in the lower-right-hand corner, which updated every time you selected a layout cellview.  Apparently they could Export Image of each layout and put the thumbnails in the right place, and the Library Manager could display these thumbnails.    The guys who did this didn't know of anything special they did (such as rewrite the LibManager), and thought everybody just knew how to do it.   I certainly don't know how.

Am I seeing things??   How can I take advantage of this?   Actually I would like to export bitmaps of my schematics and do that.   thanks!

  • skillUser

    Hi,

    If you use IC615 then this capability is built into the library and on by default.  When a cellview is saved the thumbnail is generated or updated.  There are SKILL functions to generate thumbnails and export images, such as hiGenerateThumbnails() and hiExportImage().

    Which version are you using? I'm assuming older than IC615?

    Regards,

    Lawrence.

  • GoRangers

    I am 6.1.5.    Is it a particular ISR?   Or maybe there's a .cdsenv setting?   I searched the documentation with no luck.   thanks a lot

  • Andrew Beckett

    This has been available since IC614 (might have been earlier - I can't quite remember). The default is on, and it's controlled by these cdsenv:

    ui.thumbnails      enable         boolean t
    ui.thumbnails      display        boolean t
    ui.thumbnails      generate       boolean t 

    If existing libraries don't have thumbnails, then in the Library Manager you can select a library and then do Edit->Update Thumbnails.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

  • Adrian Nistor

    I'm using virtuoso 6.1.7.

    How can I have (from skill) thumbnails generated with all display levels ?

    Currently I have the thumbnails generated equivalent to a display level = 0 Disappointed

    PS. I hope it's ok that I've used this very old topic, since it was corresponding as subject to my problem ...

  • Dimitra Papazoglou
    in reply to Adrian Nistor

    Hi Adrian,

     You can add the following in the .cdsenv file:

    ui.thumbnails stopLevel 'int 32

    where I have set stopLevel to be 32 - means that the display levels of thumbnails is 32. You can set any value >0 to be used instead of the default 0.

    After setting the above, using hiGenerateThumbnails() you should be able to get the thumbnails wth all levels displayed.

    Regards,

    Dimitra

    
			
    

		
		
		
		
	
    
	
    
		
    
			
		
    
	
    
	
    
		
						
				
				
				
				
				
		
		
    
			
		
    
	
    

    


    

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    Hi Dimitra,

    Thanks a lot, it works perfectly !
    

    

    BR,
    

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