Change size of all the solder dots in the schematic

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Andrew

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Andrew

Thanks - that helps. If I may trouble you again, is there a way to reduce the size of terminals which are created by default in a symbol (both standard dir and user created symbols). That fat square terminal really sticks out in a schematic screenshot capture. Bhavin 

Copy the schSymbolPinMasters (for manual pins) and tsgConnectorMasters (for pins created by create cellView from cellView) variable definitions from <ICinstDir>/tools/dfII/samples/local/schConfig.il into your .cdsinit and change to point at your own pin graphics cellViews (you can copy the originals from basic - e.g. basic/sympin/symbolNN) - you can then change the size of those pins. The "square" entry for tsg is probably the main one to change.

Andrew.

I was not able to alter the "square" shape terminal when I copied symbolNN to my own local dir - could find the attributes to change.

If I edit the above variables and alter the pin shapes, will it alter pre-existing symbols like res, nmos, pmos in analogLib or tsmc libs ? (I require terminal edits only for purpose of capturing neat schematics using "export image" - i.e. all these are temporary changes.)

Bhavin

(Virtuoso sub-version  IC6.1.7-64b.500.17)

To edit it  you would need to go to Options->Display Options and change the snap spacing to (say) 0.00625 (which will be the database resolution of symbol views anyway most likely). Then use the stretch command and do an area select of the edge you wish to just (and repeat for all the edges).

This will not affect existing symbols, because generally symbols have flat pin shapes in the view and not an instantiation of the  pin (even when new symbols are created, it uses the pin graphic information from views like the one you're editing as a template rather than as an instance).

You didn't make clear that this was for exporting images. In that case, this approach will not work. One thing you could do (this might not be what you want, but it's a simple thing) is to just make the pins invisible. I suspect however that's not what you want. If you did, you could just use this code: abSetLayerVisible(?layer "pin") or to make it visible again abSetLayerVisible(?layer "pin" ?visible t)

/* abSetLayerVisible.il

Author     A.D.Beckett
Group      Custom IC (UK), Cadence Design Systems Ltd.
Language   SKILL
Date       May 28, 2019 
Modified   
By         

Simple function to change layer visibility

***************************************************

SCCS Info: @(#) abSetLayerVisible.il 05/28/19.09:30:44 1.1

*/

/************************************************************************
*                                                                       *
*             abSetLayerVisible(?cv cvId ?layer t_layerName             *
*              ?purpose "drawing" ?visible nil ?redraw t)               *
*                                                                       *
*  Function to simply change the visibility of a layer purpose. Mostly  *
* created to work with schematic views as can't use leSetLayerVisible.  *
* cv defaults to current cellView, purpose to "drawing", visible to nil *
*                            and redraw to t                            *
*                                                                       *
************************************************************************/

procedure(abSetLayerVisible(@key (cv geGetEditCellView()) layer 
        (purpose "drawing") visible (redraw t) "dttgg")
    let((tf lp)
        tf=techGetTechFile(cv)
        lp=techGetLP(tf list(layer purpose))
        destructuringBind(
                (priority (_visible) (selectable) (contToChg) (drgEnable) (valid))
                techGetLPAttr(lp)
            techSetLPAttr(lp 
                list(priority visible selectable contToChg drgEnable valid)
            )
        )
        when(redraw
            hiRedraw()
        )
        t
    )
)

Regards,

Andrew.

That's precisely what I wanted - turning "off" those ugly square terminals. Thanks a ton.