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Setting Default plot properties

shayansh

Hi All,

I was wondering if there is anyway to set the default plotting properties in Cadence? For example, I would like the line thickness to be thick, all the symbols to be showing, the axes to be bold with a larger fontsize than the default. If there a way to set all this up, so all future plots have the same parameters? 

Thanks!

Shayan

  • Hi Shayan,

    Something like this in your .cdsinit :

    envSetVal("viva.trace" "lineThickness" 'string "thick")
    envSetVal("viva.trace" "lineStyle" 'string "solid")
    envSetVal("viva.axis" "font" 'string "Helvetica,14,-1,5,75,0,0,0,0,0")
    envSetVal("viva.trace" "symbolsOn" 'string "true")
    envSetVal("viva.trace" "symbolStyle" 'string "Diamond")

    Note that the lineThickness and lineStyle won't affect any signals that are plotted from ADE (anything from the calculator is OK, but anything that is a signal that you added via Outputs->To be Plotted->Select on Schematic use the y0-y9 drawing layer-purpose info (the packets defined in the display.drf for these layers) because they get probed the same way on the schematic and so it's intended that they match. Of course, you can control which symbol style you want, and the font size (14 points) and weight (75 means bold) - there is info in the documentation on these env var settings and the meaning of the font string.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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