Smart snapping API / Edit-in-place question

Has Cadence provided a Skill API to do smart snapping or highlighting in 6.1.6? The Ruler, Quick Align and Edit-in-place commands all have some great shape highlighting features that are pretty efficient. I'd prefer not to write my own if we can use a built-in Skill command.

My next question is if there is a way to turn off the error message for editing-in-place pcells? For years we have had our own edit-in-place Skill procedure that uses leEditInPlace(window instPath) to perform the eip. Our designs use a lot of pcells, and this code will actually eip into the pcell without an error message. Our Skill would then ascend to one level above the pcell automatically. This makes it very easy for a designer to get to the level of hierarchy where the edit needs to be performed.

In 6.1.6, the leHiEditInPlace command has a nice feature that dynamically highlights the shapes under the cursor to help you pick where you want to descend. The problem is that if you click on a pcell, you get the pop-up error message that won't let you descend into a pcell, and no hierarchy is traversed at all. If I can't turn off this warning, then I am forced to write this dynamically highlighting myself.

What I find interesting is that leHiEditInPlace will not highlight shapes inside a pcell (seems consistent based on feature that won't let you eip into the pcell), but if my pcell has customVias in it, it will let me descend into the customVia inside the mos pcell. Sounds like a bug, but this at least allows me to ascend back to a level above the mos. If I can just disable the pcell error and descend wherever I want, then I can write a descend wrapper around leHiEditInPlace with built-in highlighting and auto-ascend as needed. If I can't disable the error, then I need to write my own highlighting routine, and continue with our code that builds the inst path and calls leEditInPlace.

Derek