SCH1285: cannot instantiate abstracrt view as it has no symbol or scematic

What exactly are you trying to instantiate? What is the lib, cell and view name? I don't know why you would be trying to instantiate an abstract view (that's for layout) - you should be instantiating a symbol.  In fact I'm not even sure how you could even attempt to instantiate an abstract view (it would not normally even let you try).

Which IC subversion are you using (Help->About in Virtuoso will tell  you)? Where did you get GSCLIB045 from? (is there a version number associated with your GSCLIB045 installation)?

Please also explain precisely how you are trying to do the instantiation, because something is odd here.

Andrew.

Hello Andrew, Thanks for replying

I am using virtuoso 6.1.7-64b.78. The library is gsclib045_all_v4.4 for standard cells. 

Actually, I am selecting the full adder cell to make a circuit . While selecting , It automatically selects the abstract view and shows error. 

For example, after clicking on add instance icon => Browse=> select library in library browser (gsclib045_lvt), in cell Column ADDFHX2LVT, Now in Vew Column, for this particular cell only Symbol View is there and The above error is appearing in a small window.

Hope my explanation helps you in understanding this issue.

Hello Andrew, Thanks for replying

I am using virtuoso 6.1.7-64b.78. The library is gsclib045_all_v4.4 for standard cells. 

Actually, I am selecting the full adder cell to make a circuit . While selecting , It automatically selects the abstract view and shows error. 

For example, after clicking on add instance icon => Browse=> select library in library browser (gsclib045_lvt), in cell Column ADDFHX2LVT, Now in Vew Column, for this particular cell only Symbol View is there and The above error is appearing in a small window.

Hope my explanation helps you in understanding this issue.

What do you get if you type:

envGetVal("schematic" "instViewName")

in the CIW? If I had the rather unusual (read that as incorrect!) setting in my .cdsinit :

envSetVal("schematic" "instViewName" 'string "abstract")

then I get this behaviour initially, but as soon as I've started clicking on the "symbol" view in the library browser, it forgets the initial instViewName and picks up whatever I've chosen. I couldn't find a way to make it keep trying to pick abstract once I'd started selecting symbol views from the library browser.

You might also want to look if you have a .cdsenv file in your home directory, and do a "grep instViewName ~/.cdsenv" to see if there's a setting in there.

Regards,

Andrew.

Thanks for your assistance Andrew!