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Faster way to move instances

Lynks
Lynks over 11 years ago

I was wondering if there's a neat trick to move instances in Virtuoso when working with large layouts? For example, I'm currently looking at a location in a large layout where I would like to move an instance to. I go to the Navigator panel to click the desired instance but the screen jumps to that instance's location so I lost the destination location. Even then, after pressing 'm' to move the instance, the action is relative to an anchor point that I'd usually would create by clicking near the instance.

It would be great if I can sort of have the same action as placing a "new instance", when moving an instance. i.e. I switch to "special move mode", click on instance via the navigator (screen doesn't jump to instance's location), press 'm', the instance appears immediately under my cursor and then I click to place it. All of this would happen while the layout editor is fixed at current location.

Does a feature like this already exist? Or is there an efficient way of handling this particular use case?

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    Lynks over 11 years ago
    Thanks a bunch, Andrew. This works wonderfully.
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    Thanks a bunch, Andrew. This works wonderfully.
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