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Get hierarchical terminal name from cursor selection on schematic.

ddean
ddean over 10 years ago

I currently have skill code that will get a hierarchical net name so I can easily plot a voltage with a bindkey by hovering over the net and pressing a key.  This saves opening the calculator and then hitting VT and then going to select the net. 

The code does the following:  get the current window, get a point in the window (from the cursor), select the point, get the hierarchical net name by using car((geGetSelSet())~>net~>name) and geGetInstHier(windowid).  I then plot using VT and the hierarchical net name and then deselect everything.

I would like to do something similar for currents which work on terminals, but I can't seem to find a skill function that gets the terminal name by hovering over a particular terminal.  geGetSelSet() comes up with nil on terminals.  Any help would be appreciated.

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    Andrew Beckett over 10 years ago

    You can do this with the direct plot icon in the ADE toolbar in IC615/IC616 - or you could put the function for the direct plot on a bindkey, potentially. Which version are you using? Did you try the toolbar? (the ADE toolbar can be added in the schematic).

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 10 years ago

    You can do this with the direct plot icon in the ADE toolbar in IC615/IC616 - or you could put the function for the direct plot on a bindkey, potentially. Which version are you using? Did you try the toolbar? (the ADE toolbar can be added in the schematic).

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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