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Layout xl highlight dimming vs selecting

Moaz Elshamy

When using net highlighting option in Layout XL, the dimming option for other nets and layers is enabled. It acts as a shadow effect. It makes other objects darker.

I want to enable the same effect on the cyclic option between schematic and layout. For example, when selecting a device in the schematic, it is selected in the layout. I want the selected object in the layout to get this dimming effect. However, it is better to be enabled only if the devices selected from the schematic. Because, sometimes it is hard to spot the selected devices in the layout, so the dimming effect would help in this.

Is there something similar to the following command but for the cyclic selection between schematic and layout?

layout displaySelectionHighlightWhenDimmed boolean { t | nil }

  • Andrew Beckett

    Which version are you using? I just checked in IC6.1.8 ISR14 (so it would be the same in ICADVM20.1), and just turning on "Enable Dimming" on Options->Display in the layout editor does what (I think) you want (I have Scope set to "none" - the default). If I select something in the schematic, the corresponding instance is selected on the layout side, and everything else is dimmed. The cdsenv var you refer to corresponds to the "True Color Selection only" checkbox in the dimming section - if turned on, then that's equivalent to that env var being nil (it means it doesn't draw a highlight around the selected instance). 

    So it's not clear to me what isn't working... have you turned dimming on via the Display Options form?

    Andrew.

  • Moaz Elshamy

    Thank you Andrew very much. It is working as you described. I'm running IC6.1.7.  Can this dimming effect be enabled only for devices and nets selected from schematic? In regular selection for moving, I don't want the dimming to be enabled.

  • Andrew Beckett
    in reply to Moaz Elshamy

    I don't believe this is possible. You'd need to toggle the dimming on/off in the layout window. You could do that either with the "Dim" icon in the toolbar, or put this on a bindkey:

    hiGetCurrentWindow()->dimmingOn=!hiGetCurrentWindow()->dimmingOn

    Andrew.

  • Moaz Elshamy
    in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Thank you Andrew. The bindkey is very useful.

    hiSetBindKey("Layout" "<Key>n" "hiGetCurrentWindow()->dimmingOn=!hiGetCurrentWindow()->dimmingOn")

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